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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, for use in social networking, SMS, and email.
On Twitter and some instant messaging services, there is a limit to the number of characters a message can carry – however, Twitter now shortens links automatically using its own URL shortening service, t.co, so there is no need to use a separate URL shortening service just to shorten URLs in a tweet. On other such services, using a URL ...
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 tweet is a former name for a post on social networking service X (formerly Twitter). It is a short status update which can include images, videos, GIFs, straw polls, hashtags, mentions, and hyperlinks. Around 80% of all posts are made by 10% of users, averaging 138 posts per month, with the median user making only two ...
Alma mater. Grinnell College. Brown University. Awards. Fortune 40 Under 40. Website. hilarymason.com. Hilary Mason is an American entrepreneur and data scientist. She is the co-founder of the startup Fast Forward Labs.
Its hybrid investor/builder model has led to both investments in fast-growing startups like Tumblr, Airbnb, Groupon and Twitter as well as more exclusive stakes in internally built startups such as Chartbeat, Bitly and SocialFlow. Betaworks was founded in 2007 by John Borthwick.
X, commonly referred to by its former name Twitter, is a social media website based in the United States. With over 500 million users, it is one of the world's largest social networks and the fifth-most visited website in the world. [4] [5] Users can share text messages, images, and videos through posts (originally called "tweets"). [6]
Twitter has altered the trend algorithm in the past to prevent manipulation of this type with limited success. The Twitter web interface displays a list of trending topics on a sidebar on the home page, along with sponsored content (see image). Twitter often censors trending hashtags that are claimed to be abusive or offensive.