Twitter is considered a micro-blog because you are allowed only 140 characters to use in each update. People often link to good articles or websites from their tweets. When you try to do this, you may come across the problem that the link you want to paste in your tweet is too long.
There is an answer to this problem. It is called a url shortener. A url shortener is a website where you can paste the long url in, click a button, and the website gives you a shorter url to cut and paste into your tweet. The url shortener sites usualy offer way to track the clicks you receive from your tweet, and you can dig into those functions for analytical purposes. But even if you aren't interested in the analytics, just the shortening function alone is valuable. And they're FREE!
Visit http://bit.ly or http://tiny.cc to find a free url shortener.
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