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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Spammers Turn to URL Shortening

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