Spammers Turn to URL Shortening

November 3rd, 2011 → 8:00 am @ Jeff Orloff

URL shortening was made famous by Twitter’s 140 character limit. Instead of using up precious character space with long URLs like: http://www.allspammedup.com/2011/10/fighting-spam-and-going-green/, services like bit.ly, owl.ly or goo.gl could turn it into http://goo.gl/BdmMe. Not only did this make Twitter happy, but …

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Phishers favor TinyURL.com to hide Web destinations

July 23rd, 2010 → 6:59 am @ John P Mello Jr

We all know the value of short URLs. Certain forms of social media, most notably Twitter, have strict character limits on their content and when every character counts, you don’t want to be wasting them on  Web addresses. So if you can reduce a 64-character URL to 16 characters, chances are you’re going to do [...]

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