Here’s an article that will show you how to shorten links for Twitter. Object Identifiers The link tracking service maintains its link to an object by using an object identifier (ID). You publicize this page through twitter, facebook, various banner placement on your website, email newsletter, etc. And though it is unlikely that Bit.ly will be shut down, they are still a middleman.
URL Shortener If you’ve never used an URL shortener, Bitly makes it easy, even without you having to register on its site. Here at CoSchedule we bought cos.sc as our custom domain, and integrated it with Bit.ly.
Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. In your WordPress dashboard in Settings > Permalinks you can choose which format you’d like your permalinks to be.
It’s a free platform for scheduling and managing Tweets, like Tweetdeck. This way they can use shortened URLs but still give people confidence about where the link will lead.
Bag.gy is a standard link shortener, too, with password protected link options if you want them. Undo Undo Shorten links ! @sqrl_in 18 Mar 2010 More Google entering the 'smart TV' market, reports say – SciTechBlog - CNN.com Blogs - Thanks. In addition to using bit.ly as a tool integrated into third-party tools you can also use it directly at the bit.ly website. In this case you definitely want to use Bitly‘s customize feature, in which you can add a name or tag to a shortened URL to make it more recognizable. The custom tracking link page enables converting a regular custom tracking link to OneLink™. Not everyone is a fan of link shorteners, though, suggesting that they only add a possible layer of failure to the web. Failure to predict such problems with URL shorteners and investment in URL shortening companies may reflect a lack of due diligence.[26] Blocking and banning[edit] Some websites prevent short, redirected URLs from being posted. Techniques[edit] In URL shortening, every long URL is associated with a unique key, which is the part after its top-level domain name. We can also store your Google Analytics ID to track visits to your campaign pages and hosted campaign archive, so you can see traffic to these pages in your Google Analytics account. In 2011, the bit.ly address was set to redirect to bitly.com.[clarification needed] The .ly TLD is controlled by the Libyan government, which has previously removed one domain deemed incompatible with Muslim law.[12] Any shortened URL generated with bitly can also be accessed by replacing that domain with any one of the following: bitly.com j.mp (registered to bitly, and using the top-level domain of the Northern Mariana Islands, a commonwealth of the United States).