A useful Twitter URL shortener

Posted on 21. Apr, 2009 by admin in Employee productivity tips

So employee productivity doesn’t always have to be about speeding things up – it can be useful some times to shorten things instead! Ok tenous link – but we wanted to share this anyway as it’s a useful tool for getting information across to your followers assuming you use the global phenomenon that is Twitter.

http://twi.bz is a really useful URL shortnener which beats the in built tinyurl and others because it maintains your domain name within your tweet. This means that you can still show your followers or anyone else who finds you via search where your content originates from – making them more likely to click on the link.

It is of course much more search engine friendly too…

As an example, http://walkingtall.the845club.com/ (which isn’t particularly big we know is shortened to http://the845club.twi.bz/a – the domain name is preserved, but the URL is shorter. You can see the argument…