A Motion for TinyURL Boycott on Twitter (5)
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Today, after seeing several prominent Social Media figures Twitter status updates using the TinyURL shortener service, I decided to motion for a TinyURL Boycott on Twitter. Issue #1 Users unaware of more robust URL shortener services and the advantages they provide. As we engage in social media, an important factor to understanding our ROI (how ever you may measure your return) is learning how to gather information so that you may apply traditional analytics. By ...
tr.im adds another way to shorten your urls for Twitter (2)
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Dan Thornton (2)
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140Char (2)
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tr.im is the latest in a fairly substantial list of services which offer to shorten your links to make them more compatible with microblogging sites like Twitter. After all, when you’ve only got 140 characters to play with, you don’t want to be posting a lengthy website address - and even better, many of the newer services also include tracking of click-throughs. Particularly useful for marketing professionals to see whether it was their link which ...
Bit.ly Gets Better with New Data…Are You Using It Yet? (15)
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Lately, I’ve been using bit.ly for shortening the URLs I tweet, on the advice of Marshall Kirkpatrick at ReadWriteWeb. I started using it instead of is.gd, which had been my previous favorite. Why? Because bit.ly offers an array of useful data. Who knew that a simple URL shortener could open up so much interesting data? I can’t believe people still use tinyurl and other services that “only” shorten URLs. The tracking of metadata around a ...
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bhc3 said:
"Why? Because bit.ly offers an array of useful data. Who knew that a simple URL shortener could open up so much interesting data? I can’t believe people still use tinyurl and other services that “only” shorten URLs. The tracking of metadata around a posted URL - for free - makes bit.ly really powerful."
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griflet said:
Just as i figured. The short links have an ad-sensitive market: web-analytics!
Lista de Url Shortners (1)
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O Web Monkey uniu uma pequena lista de websites que permitem a criação de urls pequenos, os chamados URL Shortners. Aproveitei a boleia para reunir uma lista mais extensiva. Fica então aqui uma lista com url shortners para todos os gostos: zi.ma Bit.ly is.gd TinyUrl Cligs Tr.im Moourl budurl Smallr budurl - Links pequenos TinyPaste - Coloque pequenos textos na web WebTuga - Boorlix - Wii-PT - TugaTronica - WebTuga TV - GameTuga - AppleTuga ...
BudURL Provides a URL Shortener With Analytics (2)
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In the quest for URL shortener dominance in this era of the microblog and limited message space, BudURL comes out swinging. Going toe to toe with other URL shrinkers, BudURL combines metrics with URL shortening. I am always wary of tools that try to combine metrics with social media, like Twitter Grader and Twitter Follower Friend Ratio. The main reason for this is the risk that people who don’t understand the nature of social media ...
Web Services That Cater To Both The Publisher And The Reader (1)
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I've been noticing a trend lately that certain web services are starting to cater to both the publisher and the reader. And I think this is an important direction for a host of reasons. You have to build a service with the user/reader in mind or you won't get any uptake. But if you can't engage the content creator in your service, you'll lose something important. When publishers start paying attention to a service, they ...
Bit.ly: URL shortener with built-in tracking (1)
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Filed under: Internet, Utilities, ProductivityURL-shortening services are plentiful these days, but they're not all equal. There are a few key features we're looking for in our ideal URL-shrinker. We want a bookmarklet, to avoid needless copy-pasting. We want a short base URL for easy Twittering. There's also the ability to custom-name your URLs, so you can tell them apart and they make sense to the people you're sending to. Bit.ly has all of this and ...
