So in the next few pages, you will learn how to shorten links for Twitter. To shorten links for Twitter, you don’t need to do too much techy stuff. This can be done online, at the web pages of a URL shortening service; to do it in batch or on demand may require the use of an API.
The service includes all the custom bit.ly features plus real-time information about the page you are “shrinking.” You can also track clicks to the page and how many times that page was shared and by how many people. If you are using the newer Universal tracking please refer to the docs. Undo Undo Shorten URL @ShortenURL 24 Jun 2011 More Firefox Vision Statement Thanks.
The need for this came about when one of our Healthcare Marketing clients needed to track the actual impact their PDFs were having on their organic search volume, and traffic in general. For more information on each partner, check out the Special Partners Guide.
Launch your Web browser and go to the Web page for your preferred URL shortening service. Failure to predict such problems with URL shorteners and investment in URL shortening companies may reflect a lack of due diligence.[26] Blocking and banning[edit] Some websites prevent short, redirected URLs from being posted. If a URL with missing protocol is submitted in a browser address bar the http:// is automatically assumed.
Personally, I use Hootsuite for all of my Twitter’ing so I don’t have the need to go out and shorten it separately. Services that don’t do this can end up being blacklisted on major websites which won’t allow links from such services to be displayed.
Use either of the following formats: