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Try to use this to shorten your URL in twitter, it's interesting :)

by Elvin Tiong
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I came across this URL shortener service today. Tiny URL - create a short link

It is interesting and useful for your twitter because if other people click on your link, they can RT for you easily.

The URL generated is pretty short thus it is very suitable for your 140 limited characters of tweet.

I haven't explore much yet. I think you can check how many visitors click on your link also.

Hope that this simple sharing is useful to you all.
#interesting #shorten #twitter #url
  • Profile picture of the author grumpyjacksa
    twitter seems to be cracking down on some url shortening services....

    not sure if tinyurl is one of them, though....

    but the shorturl generated by the birdfeeder plugin on wp is not accepted...

    guess they can't kill all of it - not with only 140 characters available.

    but which ones work and which ones not ?

    pj
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  • Profile picture of the author chris2289
    Thanks for this...
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    Thanks.

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    • Profile picture of the author Rupps
      I use tinyurl with no problems so far. Tweetdeck and Twirl both have URL shortners built in which I also sometimes use.
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  • Profile picture of the author acedalright
    Does this affect the links on twitter aggregators wher the links are dofollow?
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  • Profile picture of the author TeddyP
    I use Su.pr - Drive More Traffic with Your Short URLs! to shorten

    It also keeps stats on how many times your url was clicked and retweeted. Plus it ties it all in with stumbleupon.
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  • Profile picture of the author Scott Ames
    There is also this one: Shrink a link. Track it. Grow your business. | BudURL
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  • Profile picture of the author TheRichJerksNet
    I just registered my own 4 letter domain name to do short url's as going through some other service is not always the best option, especially when money is involved in your links..

    James
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    • Profile picture of the author Andyhenry
      Originally Posted by TheRichJerksNet View Post

      I just registered my own 4 letter domain name to do short url's as going through some other service is not always the best option, especially when money is involved in your links..

      James
      Me too - I have some 3 letter domains I use to do this for myself.one of them is here

      http://3y0.com
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  • Profile picture of the author Gail Sober
    I clicked a tinyurl link the other day and it went to tinyurl.com first (with their advertising) and asked me if I wished to continue.

    I would stick with running my own url shortener because you just never
    know what these shortener services may have in mind for later.
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  • Profile picture of the author trishworks4u
    just to clarify, Twitter is not cracking down on url shortener's per se. What they are cracking down on is url shortners that do NOT have any sort of "malware"/"virus" programs in place. (For example, bit.ly checks all of it's links against spam-filtering services).

    This is because, the simple nature of a shortened url means that you can't tell where that link is going thus have to trust the "tweeters" or RTer's other text or judgement before clicking on it. Lately a lot of those shortened links from less reputable url shorteners have contained malware.

    There is a function in tweetdeck and perhaps other apps that allows you to view the actual link that a shortened url directs to before clickiing on it. However, many are not aware of this or don't use it.
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