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.

Google’s URL shortener, Goo.gl offers all the same features. To actually shorten an URL with the web-based version of Goo.gl, there are really no bells and whistles.

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.

TinyURL is an online URL shortener service. It takes a long link that may be many dozens of characters in length, and it turns it into a relatively tiny link. The shorter link is easier to handle ...

Bl.ink is another full-service online link management tool and URL shortener. It's very similar to Bitly, although it offers more paid plan types at different price points, making it perhaps more ...

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 ...