New Kid on the Shortened URL Block: is.gd
April 19, 2008 3 Comments
Quick post. I’m seeing more long URLs shorted with the service is.gd. I, like most people, use tinyurl.com to shorten URLs. It’s great. But if you’re posting a URL on Twitter, those extra few characters in a TinyURL eat into your 140-character limit.
is.gd goes even further. Here’s an example comparing the two services:
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Full URL: https://bhc3.wordpress.com/2008/04/05/friendfeed-rss-is-a-fantastic-discovery-tool/
- 82 characters
TinyURL: http://tinyurl.com/6qhk4n
- 25 characters
is.gd: http://is.gd/7oc
- 16 characters
So there’s a pick-up of 9 characters via is.gd. Can be quite valuable on Twitter, eh?
It doesn’t have a toolbar button, which makes converting URLs really easy with TinyURL. That’d be a nice addition.`
For a nice read on several different URL shorteners, check out Carlo Maglinao’s post on TechBays.
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Hutch, that’s a smart find. An even shorter url.
But the services I use to tweet, TwitThis and Mahalo Follow, both use tinyurl. =(
Carlo
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