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Say goodbye to the bit.lys that pervade your Twitter stream, along with all the other custom URL shorteners from your favorite publications. Twitter is rolling out its own way to shorten those unruly ...

When the world's 20 million or so Twitter users click links in their feeds, most of the time, they're routed through bit.ly's URL shortening service, like sands through an hourglass. By channeling ...

Normally, when you use Twitter’s search service, you can avoid clicking shortened URLs blindly – which is a security risk – by expanding them and taking a look at where they’ll be taking you exactly.

Just what the world needs, another URL shortener, right? Google seems to think so, and it’s now making its own Goo.gl service widely available to anyone — complete with tracking and statistics — for ...

You’ve seen them floating around on the Web. Billions of them are sent out each month. They’re the .ly url shorteners — bit.ly, ht.ly, ow.ly — that shrink unwieldy Web addresses into bite-size urls ...

I'm a fan of Bit.ly short URL's, but since I have temporality, maybe even permanently, switched over to the Android mobile platform, I've had concerns, scratch that…trying to using the Bit.ly mobile ...

Technically Philly parent company Technically Media is excited to announce Ph.ly, a new URL shortener dedicated specifically to Philadelphia links and stories. In one month of existence in soft launch ...

Well, that was fast. No more than a day or two after Twitter switched over to bit.ly as its default link shortener (from TinyURL), bit.ly is now the most popular URL shortening service. According to ...