In Just a Couple Days, bit.ly Becomes the Top URL Shortening Service
With services like Twitter and Facebook becoming more and more relevant in the computer age, penning your thought in 140 characters or less has evolved as second nature. When working with such limited space, sharing long URL’s to things like breaking news stories or pictures of your cat is no longer possible. Enter URL shortening websites.
Having only replaced TinyURL.com as the default link shortening service for Twitter a day or two ago, bit.ly is now the King of the shortening realm. Statistics published by Tweetmeme show that bit.ly now accounts for 46% of URL’s that have been ‘shrunk‘ on Twitter, while TinyURL has dropped to 43%. These statistics really hit home when you realise that only one month ago, TinyURL had a share of 75%.
I have been using bit.ly for some time myself as it is the built-in URL shortening service offered in the Twitter application TweetDeck. In my experience as a Twatter… errr.. Twitter… or maybe just Twit, I have shortened many web addresses from almost as many services. Both TinyURL and bit.ly offer solid services, however the convenience of going to the shorter bit.ly is hard to pass up along with its built in feature to post directly to Twitter from their website. Although I doubt TinyURL is going anywhere soon, we will only see bit.ly’s growth continue.
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