Popular social networking sites like Twitter have a character limit for user posts. Due to the popularity of Twitter, domains like TinyURL and Is.Gd -- sites that abbreviate URLs -- began to pop up.

Posting status updates to a profile was one of the earliest features of Facebook and it continues to be a prominent feature of social networking on the site. You can view status updates on your ...

Google quietly added a feature to the Google My Business spreadsheet uploads to enter URL attributes. These URL attributes can be used to link to things like your restaurants menu or other business ...