URL shortener Short URL service’s main purpose is to ease forum/blog/Twitter posting. Another reason to use this service is to cloak your URLs: you can mask your affiliate links from visitors who like to cut affiliate info from sponsors’ links + hide site address from search engines (for example – to prevent “googleing” information about your site in case if it was bought/sold).

There is some list of? URL Shortening/ URL cutter service that i have categorized them as the most popular and the commonly used for twitter and other microblogging or other purposes. This categorization based from Their greatest and coolest feature, commonly used in my twitter replies and the search engine rank. The order list is not actually representing their rank .

1. bit.ly -> This URL shortener service commonly used in twitter, work with API and available for Firefox addons.
2. cli.gs -> cligs shortens your URLs and featured with urls trafic statistic tracking. Having registered account you can track your url traffic statistics. Registration is free.
3. is.gd -> made your URL 60% (26 characters) shorter! If you’d prefer to have users see a preview page instead of sending them to your URL directly (so they can be confident where they’re going), simply add a hyphen (dash) to the end to a preview of where you?re going instead of directly to the page.
4. notlong.com –> The coolest feature of this service is that Notlong will redirect your long URL to the subdomain-like URL, that isn’t it cool? recently this service welcomes fellow fans of Twitter and Facebook!
5. plurl.me –> plurl will cut your url to short, this plurl have feature integration with Plurk so you can update your plurk status and insert your short url automaticily to the status messages. From their basic feature, plurl is a plurk integrated URL shortener but you can use it for other url shortener purpose.
6. snipurl.com –> Allows you to snip many URLs at once, allows you to attach a private key for protection and has an API to create shortened URL?s in your browser.
7. tinyurl.com –> I think tinyurl is the oldest one of hundreds URL shortener in the net, this ancient service was copyrighted by Gilby Productions since 2002. Yeah, exactly TinyURL is the GrandDaddy of them all. Tinyurl is a URL shortener which will shortening your long url to the shortest one. Tinyurl featured with customizable new alias url, which you can choose which the shortest url you like.
   An example
   Turn this long URL: http://www.mapquest.com/maps/map.adp?ovi=1&mqmap.x=300&mqmap.y=75&mapdata=%252bKZmeiIh6N%252bIgpXRP3bylMaN0O4z8OOUkZWYe7NRH6ldDN96YFTIUmSH3Q6into this tinyURL: http://tinyurl.com/6
   Which one would you rather cut and paste into your browser? That’s the power of TinyURL!
8. tr.im -> tr.im your long URL and then tweet it to tweeter. Basicly tr.im have a very cool feature that working with Tweeter and Identi.ca social microblogging, the ‘cool feature’ concept is a simple and the fast one, Shorten your URL, tweet or send it to your microblogging account, and then back to the starting point to short your another URL, it’s all just in one page. Another feature is their Great Extension for most lovely Firefox extension, Dashboard Widget, and nifty bookmarklets. URL tracking is a good feature too, tr.im will track your URL visitor’s location, the refering website, and, simply, the number of clicks. No Signed-up Requered.
9. w3t.com -> Short URL Cloaking Service + Marketing:
   * easy to handle your long URLs;
   * cloak your affiliate links, “buy it now!” URLs and track clicks;
   * redirects statistic: timing, refering sites, IP addresses;
   * easy marketing: your visitors’ country, ZIP, refering pages;
   * set temporary download links and protect them with password;
   * more privacy – hide your URLs from search engines and bots.Even better news: this short URL service is free to use and you don’t have to register to use all of it’s functionality (except URLs editing).
   Why Register? If you want to edit or delete your short URLs you have to register (or login if you already registered).
10. Zi.ma ->? provides you easy-to-use yet very powerful interface with custom tags, bulk URL submission, password-protected links, both IP- and password-based authorization, links editing and statistics include IPs and sources of your visitors (up to country/town tracking – with external whois base).

Finally,? today many of URL shortener service take the role to cut and shortening your long URL, so choose the coolest and the greatest one which meet with your requirements. For more Just Googling it “URL shorten” or want advice another one? comment on it!?

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