Currently on the market there are many tools to shorten links such as Google Goo , T.co of Twitter and the most prominent among them is the Bit.ly service. Bit.ly is known as the most popular link ...

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 ...

There was a time when TinyURL was all you needed to get control of a monster-sized URL that you wanted to share with friends. Now, Google and Facebook are getting into the link shortening business, ...

You get a text alerting you to that fact that you’ve apparently won money, and it comes with a bit.ly link. How can you prove it’s a scam? Scammers are getting smarter, and that’s bad news for all of ...

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 ...