Bitly had pretty much positioned itself as the leading URL shortener in a sea of way too many options, by offering its users a set of robust features – analytics, Bitly bundles, and more.

Bitly was known as the de facto Twitter link shortener back in 2008. As that business commoditized – and Twitter, Google and other platforms released their own versions – Bitly recognized its real ...

Bitly.tv will no doubt put pressure on Facebook and Google, which are launching their own URL shortening services (fb.me and goo.gl), to find innovative uses for them — but from a consumer ...

For most of our customers, Bitly has been more than a link shortener for years. For others, we’re still just the place with the pufferfish, Chauncey McPufferson.

The simple link-shortening service Bitly just got a major redesign. What started as a way to make long links short enough to fit into a tweet has evolved into a social link-sharing site.

Bitly, the popular link management platform, was in a little bit of a rut in 2013. Though they were doing well, link shortening was fast becoming an impacted space, and just shortening links wasn ...

Link-shortening and bookmarking service Bitly has revised its site design after users complained that shortening links became too complicated, the company announced today in a blog post.

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 ...

And no, @ bitly, I don’t want to save every link that I shorten. I have no idea why this is so irritating, but it really REALLY is. — Talia Buford (@TaliaBuford) May 29, 2012 ...

As far as technical solutions go, building a link shortener is a project you could reasonably ask someone to complete during a job interview. But the business of Bitly has never been so simple.