Once upon a time not very long ago, the link shortening business appeared to be the tech world’s next golden egg. Site’s like TinyURL and Bitly were able to build fully-realized business models by ...

Those using the automatic t.co link wrapper on Twitter will have to cut another two characters out of their tweets from February, as the shortener is set to expand. HTTP links will go from 20 to 22, ...

Most of us have clicked on a bit.ly or t.co link without a second thought, and these links are practically everywhere. These are known as link-shorteners, or URL-shorteners, and these services are ...

Twitter has added a new service that detects malicious URLs in an effort to quell the rise in spam and phishing on the microblogging social network. The new security feature ultimately will scan all ...