There are security implications, and obsolete short URLs remain in existence and may be circulated long after they cease to point to a relevant or even extant destination. Unless you want to track URLs, you have no need to run to an outside website in order to make your URLs smaller, Twitter only counts links for a certain number of characters now. This is the title that will show in your Google Analytics account after the automation is started. For example, if you want all users to download the app from your own landing page rather than the App Store, you can set a redirect parameter: This will always redirect the user to mylandingpage.com. Let’s say the link is www.tech-recipes.com/2017/how-to-shorten-links-on-twitter-easily and it’s then shortened. These are all exposed in the
using rel=shortlink.
The Reddit community strongly discourages – and in some subreddits, outright bans – URL shortening services for link submissions, because they disguise the origin domain name and whether the link has previously been submitted to Reddit, and there are few or no legitimate reasons to use link shorteners for Reddit link submissions.[29] [edit] Sites such as Adf.ly use a number of advertising techniques, including interstitial advertising, to generate revenue. It’s one of the earliest link shorteners out there and allows you to customize the actual shortened link (again, if the customization is not yet taken). Show our company logo to guest users when they login to create URLs.
To understand your user’s journey, we’ve mapped engagement flow in the following table: Engagement Flow Please note that for iOS versions below 10. You can also log into your Buffer account on the web or by downloading the mobile app to track your analytics and see how many clicks that your links have gotten.
For example, to expand , send the following request: GET For instance, you could issue the following curl command: curl '' If successful, the response will look like: { "kind": "urlshortener#url", "id": "", "longUrl": "", "status": "OK" } id is the short URL you passed in. longUrl is the long URL to which it expands. It’s a free platform for scheduling and managing Tweets, like Tweetdeck.
TinyURL tries to disable spam-related links from redirecting.[30] ZoneAlarm, however, has warned its users: "TinyURL may be unsafe. The bad news is that if you’re posting links on Twitter, your link will automatically be shortened using Twitter’s t.co shortener. Personally, I use Hootsuite for all of my Twitter’ing so I don’t have the need to go out and shorten it separately. Add them with a slash before the URL in your address bar, and you're good to go. You can’t deny the usefulness of them with social media (especially Twitter) and the additional layer of analytics you can get on your links. Such scripts avoid many issues with shortening services, keep the domain name as part of the shortened link, and can be made private.