Shortening URLs
Filed in archive Info by Arun Radhakrishnan on September 22, 2008
There is an article up at SEJ that summarizes the benefits and disadvantages of the same.
To quote from the article:
* use the services when you can't do without them (e.g. with Twitter and Twitter applications that automatically shrink a long URL using TinyURL);
* use the services when you don't care if the link will be clicked or who it will be clicked by;
* don't use them at your own site.
The use of URL shorteners does not have any advantages as such.
A list of URL shortening services can be obtained from here.
Its a great feature to use when one wants to convey a specific site within the constraints of the character limit.
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