Watch out bit.ly! Twitter announced yesterday that it has begun testing its own URL shortener. The company says it’s necessary to improve security and also to provide analytics for its Promoted Tweets service. A post on their blog explains how the service works: All links shared on Twitter.com or third-party apps will be wrapped with more »

Today has been one crazy day as far as URL shorteners go. First, Facebook decides to give it a go with their on fb.me links. Then, Google comes out of nowhere, implementing their very own goo.gl shortener on Feedburner and Google toolbar. Low and behold, right when I think that bit.ly is down for the more »

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