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@Mani, once you use a service with real time click stat tracking, you'll never go back.
I have not tried it, but such transparency may change how some affiliate marketers post links as well as reduce the # of Rick Rolls. :-)
The other shorten URL service that provides detailed analytics is TwitClicks.com. Again, have not tried it, but you can watch a movie on their site demonstrating how it tracks Twitter advertising.
Although it's not the shortest link service. I like the words it makes, "Twitter Me" and it allows you to customize the tag.
For example:
http://tw.itter.me/TwitterWhore
http://tw.itter.me/FunnyTweets
The other thing I like about it, is that it is relatively undiscovered, so it has my two previous links listed as the number one and number two ranked link throughs.
Most importantly, I can easily remember the tag that I used for each article rather than something like "xrEI84r".
Thanks for the post. Great idea!
Bradley
@OutsideMyBrain
and if possible, "API" column.
Thanks for putting together this vote. We're honored to have Adjix in the top 11.
I'm looking forward to the final results, but I'd be surprised if they differed much from the post you referenced on the cli.gs blog. The founder of cli.gs, Dr. Pierre Far, Ph.D., did a thorough job analyzing the data that Twitter released to the public. I think that represents a great sampling.
Cheers,
Joe Moreno
President
Adjix
Thanks for including Cligs!
A key difference between these services is how they handle shortening to the same destination. Some have a global short URL that everyone gets, some have a user-specific short URL, and some allow an unlimited number of short URLs per destination. Each approach has upsides and downsides and users need to understand this as it affects how the service helps them.
The API is also very important. Some have APIs that allow unlimited access and user-specific access, some don't like heavy volume, etc. The API really affects how users can create and get to their data.
A lot of these services are supported by Twitterfeed and/or Tweetdeck (because you mention Twhirl support, Tweetdeck and Twitterfeed should be mentioned too, IMHO).
Some have Wordpress plugins that can do neat things.
Cligs and bit.ly (as far as I know, the only two that do) have Google Gadgets which you can embed in Gmail, iGoogle, or any other page really.
Some services are supported by or support various Firefox extensions like UrlbarExt (a whole bunch) and Ubiquity (at least Cligs and zi.ma).
Finally, there are more features in Cligs that are listed under other services, so maybe you can include them too? Cligs also "tracks
I like how the Firefox button makes it really easy to shorten URLs and then cli.gs makes it simple to tweet the renamed and shortened URL.
http://plusphp.com/Pages/52/plusPHP-Short-URL-A...
I mean, it definitely has it's functionality but it doesn't seem to be in the same league as some of these others.
Thanks again for including us and we look forward to the feedback!
Andy
http://www.google.com/support/webmasters/bin/an...
In fact, 307's are temporary redirects making them much more like a 302 rather than a 301. As most SEO's will tell you, temporary is not the way you want to go unless the page will be back to its original location soon.
Since the pages will never be on budurl, I would suggest that not only should you not use 307's but that they could conceivably do harm.
And last but not least, is the 307 even valid in the latest version of html? I know it was in 1.1 but I didn't think it made it much past then (admittedly I don't know for sure).
Enjoyed your post!
@yogini
Tom Justin
TinyURL can go to bloody hell!
Happy voting! XD
http://1link.in
Rahul!
Im surprised that they were not on your list because I see a lot of people using them, and creating your own tags is cool :)
I made a few links with the tags I wanted before all the good ones were taken!
I guess, if you are serious about link shortening, you should just do it yourself and make your own redirect program.
http://bacn.me/
for bacon lovers
And I'll keep tweaking it till I get it "just" right. Next is better referral stats.
$ curl -I http://bit.ly/L8mw
HTTP/1.1 301 Moved Permanently
...
The only time we do a 302 is if you use a custom URL.
Another "extra" we have that you might mention in the last column is our Firefox extension, which lets you preview page titles and full links for short urls before clicking on them. The extension is available here: http://bit.ly/bitlyFirefox
Thanks for the writeup!
I found one called traceurl (http://traceurl.com) that tells you how many clicks your URL received; but an added feature is you can create URLs to files on Box.net.
Thanks for the article! :-)
Jeff Tippett
@jefftippett
http://www.snappyurl.net/
It's also got a list of the last 11 URLs created on the site (the long versions so you can't be fooled into visiting dodgy shortened ones.