Bit.ly’s grand plans all rest on a huge assumption—that ordinary Web addresses will remain long and that people will always need a way to shorten them. It’s not clear that’s the case.

Bit.ly, the worlds most popular URL shortener announced a new service called Bit.ly pro in mid-December 2009. The service was designed to let bloggers set up custom URL shoreteners using Bit.ly ...

Like many URL shorteners, bit.ly allows me to track how many people on Twitter clicked on the link and “retweeted” (shared) it with their followers, which is also helpful.

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URL shortener bit.ly has unveiled today a number of changes to its website, many of which were announced when it made changes to its Pro service last month. The service breaks down the changes ...

Services such as bit.ly, Chartbeat, Radian6, etc. allow journalists and news organizations to track how many people click on their tweets and see what’s getting retweeted, and many journalists ...

In June, a wave of hidden poisoned URLs swept Twitter, using Bit.ly links to low.cc and myworlds.mp domains where users were asked to download a file called free-stream-player-v_125.exe to view a ...

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Researchers at Cornell Tech have a paper out today on some of the privacy concerns around link shorteners, explicitly the ones generated by Google and Microsoft using bit.ly’s shortening tool ...

But Bit.ly’s saying I had about 340 visits. Where are the missing 200 or so people? How come Bit.ly’s showing more than three times the visits overall to the page than Google Analytics does.