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Bitly is a URL shortening service and a link management platform. The company Bitly, Inc. was established in 2008. It is privately held and based in New York City. Bitly shortens 600 million links per month, [4] for use in social networking, SMS, and email. Bitly makes money by charging for access to aggregate data created as a result of many ...
TinyURL is a URL shortening web service, which provides short aliases for redirection of long URLs. Kevin Gilbertson, a web developer, launched the service in January 2002 [1] as a way to post links in newsgroup postings which frequently had long, cumbersome addresses.
The Wikimedia URL Shortener is a feature that allows you to create short URLs for any page on projects hosted by the Wikimedia Foundation, in order to reuse them elsewhere, for example on social networks, on wikis, or on paper.
In 2024, researchers with Old Dominion University did an analysis of millions of random web link "sinks" and found a high correlation with Rickrolling. As background, a "sink" is the final destination in a chain of URL redirects. The researchers found the YouTube page for Rickrolling was one of the most common sinks on the Internet.
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