One of the most interesting companies in New York these days is bit.ly. The service seems simple at first: it a makes long URLs into shorter ones. But in doing that at scale, bit.ly channels massive ...

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Say goodbye to the bit.lys that pervade your Twitter stream, along with all the other custom URL shorteners from your favorite publications. Twitter is rolling out its own way to shorten those unruly ...

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, ...

Are URL shorteners like bit.ly, which transform long web addresses into short links for social networking sites such as Twitter, a security risk? Anil Dash, a blogging expert working on government ...

Have you ever wondered how long a shared link on Facebook, Twitter, or YouTube will continue to receive attention? Bit.ly has an answer for you. Their recent study showed that, on average, links ...

Link-shortening service Bit.ly is the latest company to suffer a security breach, and the company is warning users to take action immediately. Bit.ly, which lets users shorten links and track ...