Twitter used TinyURL as its default shortener until 2009, when it switched to bit.ly. And this year Twitter launched its very own t.co URL shortener, hosted on a Colombian domain.

If you daily send a lot of links to your friends / Twitter followers it’s very likely that you’ve started using a URL shortener. It’s fast, easy and so web 2.0 to send a shortened URL, you can’t deny ...

Cli.co allows users to create custom branded links for free. It’s even possible to generate a QR code with the link. One can choose from 30 domains to use instead of cli.co, such as fb.sv, tg.sv ...

Many tools also offer native QR-code creation, and Snapp does too. That means you can create a custom short URL for something else, put it in a QR code, then share that QR code with others. Other ...

Shorten links using is.gd. Paste the long URL in the text box on the is.gd home page, click "Shorten" and copy the shortened URL to your Tweet. Is.gd can reduce URLs of up to 5,000 characters to ...

Spammers have created their own services to shorten URLs (uniform resource locators) in an apparent attempt to circumvent security measures in place at well-known shortening websites, according to ...

You may have noticed over the last few weeks that TechCrunch links on Twitter have had a nifty custom URL, with links looking like tcrn.ch/1A' instead of more generic codes from TinyURL or Bit.ly ...

Now that all URLs posted to Twitter take up either 22 or 23 characters regardless of their actual length, the main point of a URL shortener is to make the links in your tweets and other social ...