8 ways to shorten URLs

It’s amazing that more and more URL shortening sites are making their presence on Cyberpace. One would remember the classic TinyURL’s first appearance and how it has transformed many long URLs into cute and short URLs for you to share with your friends on Facebook, Twitter and other social networking sites. But hey, it’s not the only one available now, and I’m going to share with you 10 other URL shortening sites that you could try!

1. Bit.ly

Bit.ly is still one of the best link shorteners around. It scores points for tracking the traffic to your shortened link, and letting you see if anyone else has made a bit.ly link to the same URL.

2. BurnURL

BurnURL offers social sharing options for your short links, so you can easily Twitter, Facebook, Digg or Reddit them.

3. Is.Gd

is.gd is indeed GOOD. One of the shortest domain name for URL shortening sites. 🙂

4. NSFW.in

NSFW.in is designed for sharing links that are Not Safe For Work. Its unique feature is a warning page, in case the person you’re sharing your link with doesn’t want to see it after all.

5. U.nu

U.nu is a fairly recent entry with a super-short base URL, and the added bonus of generating links that are easy to read out loud to someone or type out from scratch.

6. Tr.Im

Tr.im is another popular site. It’s on the shorter side of short URLs, it tracks stats, and it lets you post your links to Twitter with one click.

7. Awe.sm

Awe.sm (Awesome for short) is now offering to create a custom URL shortener for its clients, based on its own service that’s not too shabby either.

8. 1link.in

1link.in opens multiple sites with one shortened link. Users see a list of the links that are included, with the option to open one at a time or open all of them in tabs.

 

And if can’t get enough of these list of 8, try out this ShortenURL addon for Firefox. It supports up to 100 URL shortening services.