By now I’ve spend lots of time using Twitter for business and writing about it. While at it I tested numerous short URL services.
Finally I’ve found really good URL shortening services. Short URL tools that offer visitor statistics, campaign tracking, personal accounts, APIs for creating your own tools and SEO friendly links.
These URL shortening services for business Twitter usage and beyond make sense:
The list is based on my own preferences. bit.ly is the most popular of those based on user numbers as well. OK, now you can track your Twitter visitors. By now not only bit.ly tracks retweets.
Last updated: August 18th, 2010.
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Missed out is.gd, which is also quite popular.
Okay sorry for the previous comment, is.gd does not track clicks.
Cligs tracks Retweets too…
…nice guys too – they always respond to any queries and are always bringing out new features!
Farrhad: Yeah, is.gd is great for the casual user, for business tweeple not sufficient though.
Ben: Yeah, I know, I follow @pierrefar who’s involved in the project. I’ll add the retweet tracking to the post!
http://jdem.cz – popular Czech service.
Can u pls tell me what r the demerits of tinyurl.com? Did u ever tried gog.is?
Hi James/Tad,
just to let you know that this page does not display right in FF – the article starts below the right side bar. When I switch FF over to the IE rendering the page displays correctly.
Merlin
Hey Merlin: Thanks for the notice. I have 3 untraceable, unchangeable bugs on my blog it seems. This one is not to be reproduced, neither on Browsershots.org nor on different machines.
What browser, system and screen resolution do you use?
Another one is the author = James bug. WordPress assigns the authors alphabetiaclly it seems.
What are the differences between the above URL shortening URLs??? Can anyone tell me.. and how about comparing them with tinyurl??
Wow, this is the exact list I wanted. Didn’t have to Google long for that. Great job, guys — tinyurl isn’t always welcomed. :)
thanks for sharing this list but I want to know whats the difference between all these URLs??