They may save you some real estate in that tweet, Facebook post, or text, but URL shorteners aren’t doing you any favors when it comes to security. According to new research from Cornell Tech, bit.ly ...

URL shorteners provide a useful, simple, way of sharing links; but these links can unwittingly expose your most personal information. Two researchers analysed millions of bit.ly generated short URLs ...

HootSuite has had a slew of announcements over the past couple of weeks, and today they launched several new URL shorteners that allay concerns users have had over the use of the .ly suffix (which ...

URL shorteners have been around for a while, and can be rather useful. This is especially true when using services like Twitter, which limit the number of characters you can use. But there are hidden ...

I was reading an interesting story the other day that I meant to blog about, but you can add that to the list of things destroyed by the launch of https://www.pcworld ...

It’s hard to imagine a Web sans URL shortening services nowadays but you can rest assured that they’re here to stay – for better or worse. Question is: how do the likes of bit.ly, TinyURL and Goo.gl ...

If you've ever tried to link someone to a Google Maps URL, you'll undoubtedly understand the benefit of URL shorteners. With them, we can take grossly long URLs and shorten them to a mere fraction of ...

There are hell lots of URL shorteners available online but if you are active on Twitter or Friendfeed, you get to see only TinyURL links most of the times. This is not because TinyURL is the best URL ...