Twitter even lets you schedule Tweets now ... sort of. You can use this service with or without an account. Many people use URL shorteners when they share links to private content, and in fact many web services like Google Maps have offered automatic generation of shortened links for driving directions that reveal personal information like home addresses and sensitive destinations like "clinics for specific diseases (including cancer and mental diseases), addiction treatment centers, abortion providers, correctional and juvenile detention facilities, payday and car-title lenders, gentlemen’s clubs, etc."[34][35] Additional layer of complexity[edit] Short URLs, although making it easier to access what might otherwise be a very long URL or user-space on an ISP server, add an additional layer of complexity to the process of retrieving web pages.
In this case, you might like to see exactly how these invited friends behave post-acquisition, and how many of them convert after receiving their invitations. TinyURL tries to disable spam-related links from redirecting.[30] ZoneAlarm, however, has warned its users: "TinyURL may be unsafe. It’s one of the earliest link shorteners out there and allows you to customize the actual shortened link (again, if the customization is not yet taken). Even after labels are published and in the hands of customers. Links can always be maintained in these situations when the network share on the link source computer is changed.
This is a great solution if your landing page is an actual URL your contacts will be visiting. Links to Sailthru Hosted Pages are not tracked and are not included in reporting. Google’s URL Shortener is handy, though it does allow anyone to access the public analytics on each link.
With this information, you should be able to judge if a site linking to your website is a valid site or not. And if I was using Twitter.com to Tweet as I sometimes do, then I wouldn’t use one, I’d just let Twitter shorten it.
In addition to using bit.ly as a tool integrated into third-party tools you can also use it directly at the bit.ly website. Just a Few of the Available Sites I won’t claim to be familiar with all the possible URL shortening sites you could use. There are a few ways though: Hard code event tracking script Google Tag Manager Plugins (Gravitate Event Tracking Plugin) Event tracking simply applies a hot element on the page and whenever a user clicks on that element, it sends a singal to Google Analytics. Therefore, if a link source is moved to a FAT file system volume the tracking information is lost. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. People have learned that shortened links can lead to any random spam page on the web.