Sharing long links over Facebook, X/Twitter, and other social sites can be a pain if the sites develop a technical slag. The best practice, therefore, is to shorten the URL that never expires. That ...

The Web is full of short URLs such as bit.ly/cwd2hp. The products of URL-shortening services–bit.ly, Tiny URL, and others–these cryptic URLs appear on social networking sites such as Twitter–and ...

Since Twitter limits messages to 140 characters, users have quickly come to depend on “URL shorteners.” These free services take the long URLs for links that we find on the Web and shrink them to a ...