It's usually a good idea to announce, on any of your social media services you plan to use the shortener on, that you'll be shortening links through a custom domain form now on just so users feel comfortable clicking the links. We can't make custom URLs available to members upon request. Use this example as a model for your own links: Check out example.com Analytics Events Was this article helpful? Undo Undo Shorten URL @ShortenURL 18 May 2011 More Revision 357: Removed: piurl.com, tr.im, kl.am; Added: min.ms, mrte.ch, v.gd; Thanks. Enter the post/update you want to share in the required field. If the link you are interested in is long (more than 60 characters), copy and paste the URL into a web page that creates a short link.
Please note: anyone with a t.co shortened link will be able to navigate to the destination URL. Just keep in mind that there are a couple more characters in this option as compared to others like Bit.ly, Goo.gl and Ow.ly, so it's not exactly the shortest URL shortener.Overview The Google URL Shortener at goo.gl is a service that takes long URLs and squeezes them into fewer characters to make a link that is easier to share, tweet, or email to friends. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. Allow it, and this will create an ~/.oacurl.properties file containing the OAuth access token and secret. These extensions are easily obtained and generic enough for almost any organization to use. As far as I know, that shorter version will link to your original URL for as long as it exists on the net.
A friendly URL may be desired for messaging technologies that limit the number of characters in a message (for example SMS), for reducing the amount of typing required if the reader is copying a URL from a print source, for making it easier for a person to remember, or for the intention of a permalink. Over a quintillion, which would mean no user would have to worry about hitting that limit for over 2700 years at the same rate of one photo every minute.
They also allow you to track your links and provide you with the ability to understand and visualise your audience. Links can usually be maintained when the link source is moved to another computer, but this form of tracking is less reliable over time.
Some countries place restrictions on who can register domains with its country TLD — though this is becoming less and less common as countries realize the revenue opportunities from selling domains worldwide. Undo Undo URL Shortener @URL_Shorteners_ 14 Dec 2012 More Thanks. By entering in a URL in the text field below, we will create a tiny URL that will not break in email postings and never expires. You are not fully free of ads, but the advertising scheme applied on this site is reasonable. In the background, Analytics sends data by requesting an image beacon. There is no way to stop affiliates from adding their own custom payout on click using this parameter. Click the title of the email you want to work with.