Updated with new information in August 2014. If you follow TNW on social media sites like Twitter, Google+ or Facebook, you’ll have noticed that rather than use the full, ugly ol’ URL found in ...

Utilizing a branded URL shortener is just one piece of a smart social media strategy, and it’s not all that difficult to do. First, you may need to convince someone at your organization that ...

If you’ve been using Google’s URL shortener, it’s time to think about transitioning to a different service. In this post, we take a look at the five best ones available. 1.

URL shorteners spit out links that are easier to share. More importantly, they let small businesses track marketing campaigns and other incoming traffic. Here are four top URL shorteners that can ...

Before we shorten the URL, we will also need to check the length to make sure that it really needs shortening. If it's less than 20 characters, then we can just let it go through as-is.

Just when you thought the web couldn’t possibly fit any more, a new URL shortener is on the loose, this time however, it actually makes some sense. Inside Facebook have spotted Facebook ...

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 ...

Google shut down its URL shortener in 2018 and transitioned over to Firebase Dynamic Links (FDL). FDLs are supposed to be smart URLs. However, FDL is also supposed to be shuttering in 2025 ...

Shortens the URL and then sends you to Twitter’s site to tweet the URL. This is a great service for people who use twitter and like to usually share links in twitter. 2.