Twitter URL Shortener: Top 5 Uncomon but Useful Sources

By Partho, Gaea News Network
Thursday, June 25, 2009

twitter-logoAt time Twitter is too annoying, especially with the 140 character ball and chain that’s curbing down your freedom of speech and expression. You must have spent ages chopping a Tweet up to accommodate it within 140 characters. Removing the extra spaces might work, but not reducing the words as that might lead to a communication-blunder.  Of course, you can tweet something like NatalieGrant’s Tweetie - Had great song mtg w/ mngmt & label. New project’s coming 2gether!…, it’s no use scratching your head. Actually in most posting the URL crunches you for space and makes your tweet non-decipherable.

Even though Twitter automates the shortening process it won’t let you submit a tweet above 140 mark. There’s a straight and simple fix to this - shorten the URL. Having said that, you might be confused to choose one when there are so many URL shorteners out there. To make your job easy we picked out top 5 URL shortener for Twitter which are not quite common but can serve your purpose better.

1. U.nu
2. Z.pe
3.Tr.im
4. A.gd
5. Short.ie

1. U.nu

unu

Not many of you have known of u.nu. The u.nu bookmarklet generates the tiniest urls from any page with just a click. It doesn’t use the look-alike characters and it isn’t picky about upper and lower case.
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2. Z.pe

zpe

This is a free URL shortening service that is easy-to-use. It is one of the tiniest URL shortening service. The z.pe service will never expire. z.pe uses the 301 redirect that allows the PR and link juices to be transferred to the real URL. Moreover, this URL shortener for Twitter uses  Google’s infrastructure to serve you links.

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3. A.gd

agd
It allows you to shorten lengthy URLs in a jiffy. This could be specially beneficial for affiliate marketers, as it allows you to hide your affiliate links and but it now. With A.gd you can also hide your URL for Privacy in business. For more you can set temporary URLs or delete the old ones.
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4. Tr.im

trim

This URL shortener provides an easy way to post shortened URL to Twitter. In addition, the registered members are provided with bookmarklet, analytics and other features. It also offers a stats for the clicks on the shortened URL.
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5. Short.ie

shortie
With Short.ie you can not only shorten the link, but also store all the links you create and track how many clicks they have received.

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