Tag Archives: URL Shortening

URL shortening was made famous by Twitter’s 140 character limit. Instead of using up precious character space with long URLs like: http://www.allspammedup.com/2011/10/fighting-spam-and-going-green/, services like bit.ly, owl.ly or goo.gl could turn it into http://goo.gl/BdmMe. Not only did this make Twitter happy, but …

We all know the value of short URLs. Certain forms of social media, most notably Twitter, have strict character limits on their content and when every character counts, you don’t want to be wasting them on  Web addresses. So if …

A highly desirable goal of businesses and web users is the complete eradication of spam from the internet.  That is perhaps a bit too much to hope for, but certainly the goal of reducing spam is something we can all …

It was reported recently that popular URL shortening services are being exploited by spammers to circumvent common spam filters and trick users into following links to malicious web sites.  The explosion in popularity of these services is largely due to …

URL shortening services like TinyUrl have been around for a while now but with the advent of social networking services like Twitter which only allow messages of 140 words or less, their popularity has skyrocketed. This past week researchers have …

The first electronic spam that many businesses ever encountered came via email.  Before that spam was only in the form of “junk mail” delivered by post or received by fax.  Although a minor annoyance most pre-electronic spam was fairly harmless.  …