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  2. URL shortening - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/URL_shortening

    On Twitter and some instant messaging services, there is a limit to the number of characters a message can carry – however, Twitter now shortens links automatically using its own URL shortening service, t.co, so there is no need to use a separate URL shortening service just to shorten URLs in a tweet. On other such services, using a URL ...

  3. Bitly - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bitly

    The Bitly URL shortening service became popular on Twitter after it became the default URL shortening service on the website on May 6, 2009. [5] It was subsequently replaced by Twitter's own t.co service. [6] The company behind Bitly launched a similar service, but for online videos, to determine what videos are the most popular on the web. [7]

  4. TinyURL - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TinyURL

    People posting on X (formerly Twitter) often made extensive use of shortened URLs to keep their tweets within the service-imposed 140-character limit. Twitter used TinyURL until 2009, before switching to Bit.ly. [5] Currently, X uses its own t.co domain for this purpose, automatically shortening links longer than 31 characters using its t.co ...

  5. Wikipedia:URLShortener - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:URLShortener

    The Wikimedia URL Shortener is a feature that allows you to create short URLs for any page on projects hosted by the Wikimedia Foundation, in order to reuse them elsewhere, for example on social networks, on wikis, or on paper. The feature can be accessed from Meta-Wiki on the special page m:Special:URLShortener. On this page, you will be able ...

  6. Google URL Shortener - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_URL_Shortener

    Google URL Shortener, also known as goo.gl, is a URL shortening service owned by Google. It was launched in December 2009, initially used for Google Toolbar and Feedburner. [2] The company launched a separate website, goo.gl, in September 2010. [3] [4] [5]

  7. URL redirection - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/URL_redirection

    With the launch of TinyURL in 2002 a new kind of redirecting service was born, namely URL shortening. Their goal was to make long URLs short, to be able to post them on internet forums. Since 2006, with the 140 character limit on the extremely popular Twitter service, these short URL services have been heavily used.