What is bit.ly ?
March 31, 2009 at 10:30 pm cellstrat Leave a comment
http://bit.ly is a URL shortening service. You can go to http://bit.ly website and type any URL and bit.ly creates a mapping to a much shortened URL of the form http://bit.ly/18l5h which is a simple HTML redirector to the actual website.
Eg we typed https://cellstrat.wordpress.com in http://bit.ly website and bitly translated it to http://bit.ly/18l5h. The shortened URL leads to the CellStrat wordpress blog.
How this helps : We use twitter and twitter has a 140 character limit (same as a regular SMS). The shortened bit.ly URLs can be referenced in tweets without taking too much space needed by classic URLs.
Innovative, shall we call it..
The major competitor to bit.ly is http://tinyurl.com/
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