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.

URL shorteners such as Bitly, Ow.ly and Is.gd are a way of life on social media. The advantages are clear: reduced character counts and useful statistics. But these services come with two major ...

How to shorten a URL using TinyURL. TinyURL is another common URL shortener. Just like Bitly, it has premium plans starting from $9.99 a month that offer greater customization for branded links ...

All other users of the Vine service will be able to get a vanity URL starting on December 23. The official announcement that vanity URLs are coming came courtesy of Twitter this week.

How to Truncate the URL. Don't lose customers or potential clients with long URLs – when sent via email or instant message, such URL can be rendered unclickable by line breaks.

Instead of creating a branded URL shortener with Bit.ly, LinkedIn decided to develop its own application so it could tie it directly into LinkedIn’s own back-end, with high SLAs and data fidelity.

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 ...

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 ...

We're not sure when Vine's web profiles will go live just yet, but we'll update this post when they do. Update: We initially said vanity URLs were only for verified users today, but it appears ...