Seven years after Google stopped users from creating new goo.gl links, we're just weeks away from them not working at all.

2. Bit.ly bit.ly is my next favorite URL shortening service. I actually use it more than tr.im, since my favorite twitter client, iTweet.net provides bit.ly as the inbuilt URL shortener.

The service for abbreviating long internet addresses was discontinued back in 2018. Existing redirects with goo.gl will soon ...

Google will officially deprecate links generated with its URL shortening tool next month. On August 25th, 2025, all links in ...

Twitter used TinyURL as its default shortener until 2009, when it switched to bit.ly. And this year Twitter launched its very own t.co URL shortener, hosted on a Colombian domain.

As early as this summer, any links shared via Twitter will be shortened and wrapped into Twitter’s new t.co URL shortener, which will have some smart capabilities when viewed on online: A really ...

Most people just copy and paste the automatically shortened link, and many of the popular URL shortening services allow users to customise the name of the ‘new’ web address. But herein lies the ...

To raise awareness of the extensive cybersecurity dangers posed by shortened URLs, a college student studying computer science has created his own URL shortening service that doubles as a weapon ...

Maybe it started as a joke, “What the world needs is another URL shortening service!” said as though we didn’t have enough already. Then, someone at Google heard the joke, took it seriously ...