We use URL shortening services so often these days we're seldom even aware of them. Until, that is, one of them fails. Today, one of the most popular of these, Bitly, stopped working for some users.

Join our daily and weekly newsletters for the latest updates and exclusive content on industry-leading AI coverage. Learn More Bitly, famous for its near-ubiquitous URL-shortening service, has ...

Bitly was known as the de facto Twitter link shortener back in 2008. As that business commoditized – and Twitter, Google and other platforms released their own versions – Bitly recognized its real ...

Join our daily and weekly newsletters for the latest updates and exclusive content on industry-leading AI coverage. Learn More Less than two weeks after closing its bulk link-shortening “bundles” ...

In this day and age, most of the links that we see on social media, and even in emails, are shortened links. And this is due to the character limits that we have on these platforms – with Twitter ...

July 12, 2017 (NEW YORK) – Bitly, the world’s first and leading Link Management Platform, announced today that it received a $63 million majority investment from Spectrum Equity, a leading growth ...

Don't call it "link shortening." That was the old Bitly, back when one of the most pressing concerns in digital was sharing links too long for Twitter's character count. And back when Bitly was the ...