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.

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.

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 ...

Once again, Google fails at being ordinary. Although the claim with its Goo.gl URL shortener is that it's more about quality than features, the search giant couldn't help itself and has inserted a ...

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 ...

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.

In this open-source Python project tutorial, you'll learn how to create a fully functional URL shortener application using PyQt for the graphical user interface. Follow along to turn long URLs ...

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.

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 ...