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Active. Bitly is a URL shortening service and a link management platform. The company Bitly, Inc. was established in 2008. It is privately held and based in New York City. Bitly shortens 600 million links per month, [4] for use in social networking, SMS, and email. Bitly makes money by charging for access to aggregate data created as a result ...
In November 2009, the shortened links of the URL shortening service Bitly were accessed 2.1 billion times. [1] Other uses of URL shortening are to "beautify" a link, track clicks, or disguise the underlying address. This is because the URL shortener can redirect to just about any web domain, even malicious ones.
In 2010, she co-founded hackNY, a non-profit that helps integrate engineering students into the startup community in New York City. [3] After a few years working as Chief Scientist at bitly, [7] she quit the company in 2014 and co-founded Fast Forward Labs with Micha Gorelick, another former bitly data scientist.
Rectangular Micro QR Code. Rectangular Micro QR Code (also known as rMQR Code) is two-dimensional (2D) matrix barcode invented and standardized in 2022 by Denso Wave as ISO/IEC 23941. rMQR Code is designed as a rectangular variation of QR code and has the same parameters and applications as original QR code.
TinyURL is a URL shortening web service, which provides short aliases for redirection of long URLs. Kevin Gilbertson, a web developer, launched the service in January 2002 [1] as a way to post links in newsgroup postings which frequently had long, cumbersome addresses. TinyURL was the first notable URL shortening service and is one of the ...
Tweet (social media) A user tweeting about bugs. A tweet is a short status update on the social networking site Twitter which can include images, videos, GIFs, straw polls, hashtags, mentions, and hyperlinks. Around 80% of all tweets are made by 10% of users, averaging 138 tweets per month, with the median user making only two tweets per month.
Bitly, which that allows users to shorten, share, and track links (URLs). Reducing the URL length makes sharing easier. Giphy lets anyone search for animated gifs on the web. It was born out of an experiment by two hackers in residence, Alex Chung and Jace Cooke, who found it difficult to browse the best gifs on the web.
The article says that "Bitly makes money by charging for access to aggregate data created as a result of many people using the shortened URLs." If anyone knows what kinds of information are collected (e.g. IP addresses and/or location data, or just source pages or number of clicks), that would be very helpful information to put in the article.