Say goodbye to the bit.lys that pervade your Twitter stream, along with all the other custom URL shorteners from your favorite publications. Twitter is rolling out its own way to shorten those unruly ...

Twitter has just announced that to protect people from scams, links in direct messages and sent via email will be shortened using its own URL shortener. It’s a welcome move. Still, I was curious about ...

Twitter has just announced at its Chirp developer conference that it will be launching its own URL shortener. The company feels forcing using to leave twitter.com to shorten a link is absurd and ...

Twitter has been shortening links for quite some time, but there are some other features that you might not know yet. Since sometime in March, according to the Twitter blog, any links in Twitter DM’s ...

The microblogging service plans to wrap and abbreviate all links shared on the site in the same way other URL-shortening services such as Bit.ly do. Steven Musil is a senior news editor at CNET News.

The initiative Twitter began back in June to make t.co the default URL shortener for all its users will be completed by the end of this year, said the company in an email it sent out to its entire ...

Twitter's new Fabric platform aims to make it easy for app developers to connect with their customers Credit: Photo: PA Twitter’s URL shortener, t.co, is reportedly being used by spammers to trick web ...

Google's URL shortening service, goo.gl, has added an API, giving third-party developers a way to integrate the service into their own apps. The new API means Twitter clients and other apps that use ...

Tweetboard, a recently-launched product that lets you create a Twitter-powered forum on any site, is adding additional functionality by releasing a Twitter client, new API, and a URL shortener, called ...

On Tuesday, Twitter VP for communications Sean Garrett announced that, starting this summer, "all links shared on Twitter.com or third-party apps will be wrapped with a t.co URL," a short URL that ...

Twitter sent out a very strange email to all of its users over night about a few important changes the company is making, including the switch to OAuth that broke many users' third party Twitter apps ...

SAN FRANCISCO, California -- Twitter has announced it will start its own URL shortening service for tweets from its official apps. Twitter CEO Evan Williams made the announcement Wednesday night at ...