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 ...

The popular link shortening service Bit.ly (which has billions of clicks on its links per month) has just announced that it will allow users to shorten links and automatically turn those links in to ...

The default link shortener on Twitter, bit.ly, just keeps getting bigger. In March, 3.4 billion bit.ly-shortened links were clicked on, up from 2.7 billion in February and only 87 million a year ago.

Our team tests, rates, and reviews more than 1,500 products each year to help you make better buying decisions and get more from technology. Google announced its URL shortening site Goo.gl earlier ...

This article has been changed from its original form to correct an erroneous statement that Bit.ly has blocked 200 links from Andreas Antonopoulos' book. Our ...