Bitly announced today that it will provide click tracking technology and inbound link data to Moz to help users better understand who is linking to websites and how relevant those links are. The data will use number and frequency of…
Bitly Makes Saving and Shortening Links Easier
Bitly wants you to know they’ve been listening to your comments and concerns. Yesterday, they announced they will be making some changes and that it will now be quicker to save and shorten links. In fact, it takes place in…
Study Claims 61% of URL Shorteners Are Dead
A study by new URL shortener yi.tl claims that out of the 1002 different URL shorteners created in the past decade, 614 of them no longer exist. The company cites spam as the main reason for sites closing, though I’m…
Bitly Raises $20 Million
URL shortening platform bitly has just raised $20 million in a round of funding, roughly double it garnered last time around. Bitly had been the default URL shortener on Twitter since 2009, replacing TinyURL, until Twitter introduced its own shortener…
Twitterfeed Acquired by Bitly
Bitly, once Twitter’s favorite URL shortening service before Twitter decided to go with its own service, announced that it has acquired Twitterfeed. Twitterfeed allows bloggers to “feed their blogs to Twitter,” Facebook and other services. Two weeks ago, Twitterfeed announced…