With the rise of Twitter, we’ve also seen the rise of link shorteners (standard URLS take up too many characters). The king of the link shorteners right now is bit.ly, which is the default shortener ...

URL shortener and analytics service Bit.ly has been working on a new set of products, being referred to as “Bit.ly Now” internally, which will define the next stage of the company’s growth. The ...

Link-shortening service Bit.ly has unveiled a new link-bundling feature that allows you to group multiple links -- up to 100 -- on a single page and share that page with your friends with a single ...

QR codes went from zero to hero during the pandemic. But are people still using QR codes as much now that the pandemic is under control? Apparently so. During the first half of 2022, Bit.ly saw a 152% ...

There was a time when TinyURL was all you needed to get control of a monster-sized URL that you wanted to share with friends. Now, Google and Facebook are getting into the link shortening business, ...

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