- Security
- By Catalin Cimpanu
- April 15th, 2016
Google, Microsoft Address Problems in Their URL Shorteners
Researchers uncover private data leaks in goo.gl, 1drv.com
- Security
- By Catalin Cimpanu
- September 25th, 2015
Researchers Trained an AI to Detect Malware Obscured via Twitter t.co Short URLs
The AI has an accuracy ranging from 83% to 98%
- Security
- By Catalin Cimpanu
- September 23rd, 2015
Brute-Forcing URL Shorteners Can Expose Sensitive Corporate Information UPDATE
Security researcher finds a way to exploit the carelessness of employees who pass sensitive files through URL shorteners
- Google News
- By Catalin Cimpanu
- May 28th, 2015
Goo.gl Premieres Smart Deep-Linking Feature for Websites and Mobile Apps
Link directly to the desired content, regardless if users are on a mobile device or using a classic desktop browser
- Web / Internet Life
- By Gabriela Vatu
- October 29th, 2014
Feedly Kills URL Shortener for Safer, Faster Browsing
Feedly has decided to nix one of its features
- Security
- By Ionut Ilascu
- August 6th, 2014
Twitter URL Shortening Service Abused by Spammers
Crooks use t.co links to land users on pharmacy websites
- Web Blog
- By Gabriela Vatu
- January 18th, 2014
RSS Reader Feedly Launches URL Shortener
The service was tested for eight weeks before it went live
- Web Blog
- By Gabriela Vatu
- November 19th, 2013
Yahoo Shuts Down URL Shortener No One's Heard Of
Y.ahoo.it is going dark on November 20, the company announced
- Web Blog
- By Catalin Cimpanu
- September 14th, 2013
Script of the Day: QRMAN
A URL shortener and QR code generator created with PHP and MySQL
- Web Blog
- By Lucian Parfeni
- August 13th, 2013
TweetDeck Gets a Significantly Revamped New Tweet Panel with Image Previews
The new panel is easier to use and more flexible at the same time
- Web Blog
- By Lucian Parfeni
- April 11th, 2013
Google Acquires yt.be for Even Shorter YouTube Links
The domain now redirects to goo.gl, but it may be used by YouTube eventually
- Web Blog
- By Lucian Parfeni
- April 11th, 2013
All Links on Twitter Stop Working Due to t.co Outage Update
Twitter is working on it, the problem is temporary
- Web Blog
- By Lucian Parfeni
- February 20th, 2013
Twitter Takes Away Two More Characters If You Use a Link
You'll start with 118 characters for regular links, 117 for encrypted ones
- Web Blog
- By Lucian Parfeni
- October 8th, 2012
Links on Twitter Work Again, as T.co Outage Ends
Shortened links stopped working for about an hour on Twitter
- Google News
- By Lucian Parfeni
- March 7th, 2012
Goo.gl URL Shortener Switches to the New Google Look, Adds Instant Previews
Google is still rolling out its new design to its many products
- Internet Life
- By Lucian Parfeni
- October 14th, 2011
Bit.ly Debuts Future Predicting Real-Time Search Technology
But it's only making it available to enterprise users as a reputation monitoring service
- Internet Life
- By Lucian Parfeni
- October 11th, 2011
Twitter Now Redirects All Links via Its Own t.co URL Shortener
But the original links will be displayed on Twitter.com