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Bitly Suspects Account credentials compromise, asks users to take immediate action

Posted by Techdows on May 9th, 2014

Do you own a bit.ly account, act quick and reset password and follow other instructions mentioned by link shortening service on its blog as they believe their user account credentials were compromised. They’re not sure about... More »

Bitly now shows Life for each link You saved so far

Posted by Techdows on Feb 20th, 2013

Bitly URL shortening service has introduced “link insights” feature for its registered users which shows life of links saved on its service. If you’ve saved a link on your Bitly account the service then shows insights for that... More »

bit.ly bundles allows to share multiple links with a Single bit.ly Short URL

Posted by Techdows on Nov 16th, 2010

bit.ly URL shortener announced bit.ly bundles which allows to share multiple links with in a single shortened bit.ly URL. You can rearrange, add and remove these links in bit.ly bundles. These bit.ly bundles can be easily shared with... More »

Install Bit.ly Preview Extension for Chrome

Posted by Techdows on Dec 23rd, 2009

Having covered Bit.ly preview extension for Firefox which shows preview of URLs before we are going to click in Twitter. Always safe to know what the original URL is in twitter. Now Bit.ly preview extension also available for Chrome... More »

Bit.ly to Extend Spam and Malware Protection for bit.ly Links

Posted by Techdows on Dec 1st, 2009

The default URL shortener for Twitter, bit.ly going to provide more protection to users from malware and spam links . Bit.ly is adding 3 news services to extend their spam and malware protection they are currently offering to bit.ly... More »

Now Bit.ly Shows Your Bit.ly Click Summary

Posted by Techdows on Nov 18th, 2009

The best way to track clicks for bit.ly links is creating an account. By creating an account in bit.ly, user can track referrer data, location and number of clicks in real time for bit.ly links. Now bit.ly added bit.ly click summary... More »

Preview bit.ly Links Before You Click on Twitter With bit.ly Preview

Posted by Techdows on Nov 1st, 2009

Since twitter is limited to 140 characters only, means you have to shorten any long URL to post or twitter will automatically shortens it with default URL shortener bit.ly to fill 140 characters limit. Users never know where... More »

Danger With Shortened Links on Twitter [Video]

Posted by Techdows on Sep 25th, 2009

Why Twitter is limited to 140 characters , twitter has its own answer. 140 Character service given life to some URL shorteners and ended the road to others where there is no business with link shortening . Symantec released a... More »

2 Ways to Track bit.ly Links

Posted by Techdows on Sep 17th, 2009

bit.ly is the default URL shortner for Twitter (Update: Not now, Twitter uses its own t.co) and for other popular desktop twitter clients like Tweetdeck which allows users to shorten the length of the URL, share that link and also... More »

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