With the wild popularity of Twitter, it introduced a lot of add on service like twitter client, search page, analytics. But, one of the most remarkable tools that Twitter really promote is URL shortening service. So, what the heck is URL Shortening service?Well, it is a services to squeeze the long and boring URL into a really compact and mini sized url, this is important as Twitter has text limit of 160 characters. Starting from there, the service is becoming more popular and use widely for email, URL forwarding and more. So, I am gonna share the different flavor of URL Shortener for your reference.
1. Is.Gd
2. TinyURL
3. Bit.ly
4. SnipURL
5. TweetBurner
6. tr.im
7. BudURL
8. Adjix
9. Cli.gs
10. tiny.cc
11. Tgr.me
12. Zi.ma
13. Poprl
14. Piurl
15. Ow.ly
16. Zz.gd
17. Xrl.u
18. TWURL.nl
19. Sn.im
20. Piurl
21. Nn.nf
22. Rt.tc
23. Sn.vc
24. Ink.in
25. Pnt.me
26. Url.ie
27. Yep.it
28. 23o.net
29. Fly2.ws
30. Ne1.net
31. Culld.us
32. Yoolink.to
33. Xaddr.com
34. Nsfw.in
35. W3t.org
36. X.se
37. Readthisurl
38. Memurl
39. Dwarfurl
40. Doiop
41. Shrti
Even Shorter URL…
3.ly
R.im
Z.pe
2pl.us
A.gd
U.nu
Tinyarro
X.vu
Shortener on Your Own Domain
Awe.sm
Upcoming Stumble Upon Shortener
Su.pr
It just too much of it. If you are need even more of this, check this link for 88 URL Shortener.
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Happy URL squeezing!
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Out of curiosity, what is a URL shortener for? Just to shorten the URL of a page to make it easier to remember? I personally prefer a longer URL… it makes my page unique. But thanks for sharing these links… just in case I would want a shorter link.
You did forget to mention twittermega.com that offers mass URL converting free.
@wholesale printing: URL shorteners are popular for services such as Twitter that limits each message, including the URL, to 140 characters.
You can add Safe.mn (http://safe.mn) to the list. Safe.mn addresses the two main criticisms to URL shorteners: security and transparency. All links are thoroughly verified for viruses, malware, phishing, malicious content, session stealing, cross-site scripting attacks, etc. Any suspicious link gets flagged, and users are warned about it. Safe.mn is also the most transparent URL shortener service: all links generated by Safe.mn are publicly available, and updated regularly.
Nice list – thanks for sharing!
I’m using a cool service called shrivel.me for about 2 weeks now – it’s quite minimal feature wise but looks very sleek, clean and professional which is important to me.
Also you can add another. Check out: http://txtn.us
It uses special characters to guarantee just 6 characters in the URL, like this:
http://❽.ws/❤
Seems pretty cool. They also have tools to reduce text using ligature replacements, to fit more into the 140 limits.
And some mirroring, flipping of text – fun text tools.
It’s beta but I’ve noticed it’s getting better.
New URL shortening service, also enables you to create short URLs for video embeds and arbitrary text or HTML:
http://qux.in
Video enricher and link shortening service for your Twitter, Blogs, Facebook, Forums, Etc.
Video enricher and link shortening service for your Twitter, Blogs, Facebook, Forums, Etc.
hi,nice to meet you
http://crum.bs is a nice one also