Bit.ly recently unveiled a new service, Bit.ly Pro, which makes it very simple to host your own custom-branded short URL. The basic Bit.ly Pro service, which is in the free beta stage for now, allows ...

Bitly, the URL shortening service, has been the victim of a hack. CEO Mark Josephson posted an "Urgent Security Update" on the Bitly blog today, stating that they found reason to believe that user ...

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QR codes went from zero to hero during the pandemic. But are people still using QR codes as much now that the pandemic is under control? Apparently so. During the first half of 2022, Bit.ly saw a 152% ...

Since it became the default URL shortener for Twitter, Bit.ly has been growing like crazy. And as we learned from Spider-Man, with great power, comes great responsibility. Bit.ly has started warning ...

Update: Bitly says that the root of the problem was Google Safebrowsing, a service provided by the internet giant to browsers such as Firefox and Chrome, that highlights URLs that contain malware or ...

The link-shortening service’s new bookmarklet lets you share how you feel with custom domains like “iwantth.is” and “loath.es.” Sometimes, it’s hard to tweet out a link to an interesting story and ...

Link-shortening service Bit.ly is the latest company to suffer a security breach, and the company is warning users to take action immediately. Bit.ly, which lets users shorten links and track ...

In a statement on its blog today, Bitly has announced that CEO Peter Stern has stepped down as CEO. The reason is that Stern is to “pursue other interests”; further details aren’t known at this time.

We use URL shortening services so often these days we're seldom even aware of them. Until, that is, one of them fails. Today, one of the most popular of these, Bitly, stopped working for some users.