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 ...

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.

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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 ...

The Twitter Blog announced they are now testing expanding their Twitter based URL shortening service, t.co on URLs that are long. The main difference here is that they will show a portion of the real ...

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 complaint, filed in a San Francisco federal court on Monday, alleges that “Twitter surreptitiously eavesdrops on its users’ private Direct Message communications” by automatically intercepting and ...