Recently I’ve spend lots of time learning to use Twitter for business and writing about it. While at it I quickly abandoned TinyURL and even its more advanced short URL alternatives.

Instead I started to use SEO 2.0 compatible URL shortening services.

Those that offer visitor statistics, personal accounts, APIs for creating your own tools and SEO friendly links. These 7 URL shortening services for business Twitter usage and beyond are my current favorites:

  1. bit.ly
  2. tr.im
  3. poprl.com
  4. xrl.us [Metamark]
  5. zi.ma
  6. cli.gs
  7. budurl.com

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. bit.ly even tracks retweets.

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  1. Farrhad A (2 comments.)
    Posted February 4, 2009 at 5:00 pm | Permalink

    Missed out is.gd, which is also quite popular.

  2. Farrhad A (2 comments.)
    Posted February 4, 2009 at 5:01 pm | Permalink

    Okay sorry for the previous comment, is.gd does not track clicks.

  3. Ben McKay (1 comments.)
    Posted February 5, 2009 at 12:11 pm | Permalink

    Cligs tracks Retweets too…

    …nice guys too – they always respond to any queries and are always bringing out new features!

  4. onreact (584 comments.)
    Posted February 5, 2009 at 7:04 pm | Permalink

    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!

  5. Jiri Bures (1 comments.)
    Posted February 5, 2009 at 9:00 pm | Permalink

    http://jdem.cz – popular Czech service.

  6. Jackie (1 comments.)
    Posted February 8, 2009 at 8:50 am | Permalink

    Can u pls tell me what r the demerits of tinyurl.com? Did u ever tried gog.is?

  7. Merlin Silk (1 comments.)
    Posted February 11, 2009 at 3:59 am | Permalink

    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

  8. onreact (584 comments.)
    Posted February 11, 2009 at 3:23 pm | Permalink

    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.

  9. Brett (1 comments.)
    Posted March 7, 2009 at 3:26 pm | Permalink

    What are the differences between the above URL shortening URLs??? Can anyone tell me.. and how about comparing them with tinyurl??

  10. BeeMedia (1 comments.)
    Posted March 10, 2009 at 8:59 am | Permalink

    Wow, this is the exact list I wanted. Didn’t have to Google long for that. Great job, guys — tinyurl isn’t always welcomed. :)

  11. Brian (1 comments.)
    Posted March 14, 2009 at 8:16 am | Permalink

    thanks for sharing this list but I want to know whats the difference between all these URLs??

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