Youtu.be joins the shortened URL arsenal

In light of last weeks release of both Facebook and Google shortened URLs, YouTube has now decided to jump on the bandwagon with its own URL shortener. This time its the very original youtu.be. This will, of course be for shortening only YouTube videos for use on services like Twitter.

If you would like to try out the new feature, go ahead and link up your own YouTube account to Twitter using Autoshare. After that, all of the Tweets that are sent about your recently added video will contain a shortened link.

You can also manually use the URL by:

To use youtu.be manually, simply take a URL like http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FdeioVndUhs and replace the “http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=” with “http://youtu.be/” to get: http://youtu.be/FdeioVndUhs

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