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Twitter’s Web Interface Will Soon Auto Shorten Links For You

One of the missing feature of Twitter.com is the ability to shorten links by default. Although Twitter has it’s own URL shortener at t.co, there is no way you can shorten links directly from Twitter’s web interface. Desktop Twitter clients e.g TweetDeck allows you to auto shorten links and post tweets that are more than [...]

Preview Actual Location Of Shortened Links in Google Chrome

Shortened links are a great way to save those precious characters on Twitter, Facebook and other social networking websites. But sometimes, the same shortened links can be dangerous too. Over the past couple of years, I have seen a lot of suspicious sources using short links to spread malware through Twitter, Facebook, Google Buzz and [...]