However, the service also pays out for up to five levels of referrals if your shortened link is used on other sites. Linkbee says that is has applications for both Facebook and MySpace in the works.

In this era of technology and interconnectedness, people hardly think twice about sharing web links online. But those lengthy URLs can mess up your social media posts, emails, and other digital chats.

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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 ...

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Everybody spies on everybody on the internet, right? News organizations monitor users’ behavior on their sites to find out which articles do well and where visitors come from. Marketers and social ...

TinyURL is an online URL shortener service. It takes a long link that may be many dozens of characters in length, and it turns it into a relatively tiny link. The shorter link is easier to handle, but ...