Comments on: WTF is bit.ly?

By: Jen

Jen — Tue, 30 Mar 2010 03:19:12 +0000

I have a friend whose every Facebook status update is a bit.ly link. I totally thought it was a virus and I told him his account had been hacked. Oops.

By: Andrew

Andrew — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 00:38:58 +0000

Hello, it’s 2010! I’m surprised anyone’s not seen bit.ly since it’s the most popular URL shortener on the net and is used much more widely than just Twitter. Personally I prefer tr.im, which used to be on the same level as bit.ly until Twitter set bit.ly as a default and murdered all competition.

By: Martin

Martin — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 19:30:49 +0000

Marco, in reseaching this article I stumbled across a number of pieces (such as this one from the NYT: http://nyti.ms/Hk0dH) that commented on tinyURL’s reliability issues.

By: Marco

Marco — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 05:42:18 +0000

I just started trying bit.ly, I had tried tinyurl, but bit.ly has great tracking for clicks – and it’s super easy to use.