The first I made using the Twitter wrapper, the second using Bit.ly and the third was the original URL to this page. The tweet was 138 characters, in all.

Bit.ly recently unveiled a new service, Bit.ly Pro, which makes it very simple to host your own custom-branded short URL. The basic Bit.ly Pro service, which is in the free beta stage for now, ...

The service already lets anyone see how a given bit.ly link is performing by adding a "+" after at the end of the URL. For instance, the link "bit.ly/info/44u4E+" tells me that just over 500 ...

Bit.ly Goes Pro. Bit.ly got a lot of attention earlier this year after it deposed TinyURL as the official link shortening service for Twitter. Not willing to stand still after that victory, bit.ly ...

Today, one of these URL shortening services, bit.ly, raised $2 million, sparking the question: How much are these things actually worth? Nobody really knows. But here is some fun math. Assuming ...

Today link shortening service Bit.ly introduced a redesign that turns it into something more than a link shortener, compromising what made Bit.ly so desirable in the first place.

Those days are over. Apparently, Twitter has silently replaced TinyURL as its default URL shortening service with bit.ly, a competing service that launched quite recently and not too long ago ...

URL shortening services are experiencing a renaissance in the age of Twitter. ... [NOTE: AUGUST 2009, BIT.LY IS THE DEFAULT NOW IN TWITTER, ANOTHER STRONG REASON TO CONSIDER IT].

Link-shortening service Bit.ly is the latest company to suffer a security breach, and the company is warning users to take action immediately. KACPER PEMPEL / Reuters, file May 9, 2014, 11:17 AM EDT ...