Say goodbye to the bit.lys that pervade your Twitter stream, along with all the other custom URL shorteners from your favorite publications. Twitter is rolling out its own way to shorten those unruly ...

Twitter has just announced that to protect people from scams, links in direct messages and sent via email will be shortened using its own URL shortener. It’s a welcome move. Still, I was curious about ...

The Twitter Blog announced they are now testing expanding their Twitter based URL shortening service, t.co on URLs that are long. The main difference here is that they will show a portion of the real ...

Twitter has just announced at its Chirp developer conference that it will be launching its own URL shortener. The company feels forcing using to leave twitter.com to shorten a link is absurd and ...

Twitter's new Fabric platform aims to make it easy for app developers to connect with their customers Credit: Photo: PA Twitter’s URL shortener, t.co, is reportedly being used by spammers to trick web ...

The complaint, filed in a San Francisco federal court on Monday, alleges that “Twitter surreptitiously eavesdrops on its users’ private Direct Message communications” by automatically intercepting and ...

On Tuesday, Twitter VP for communications Sean Garrett announced that, starting this summer, "all links shared on Twitter.com or third-party apps will be wrapped with a t.co URL," a short URL that ...

Twitter announced its new approach to URLs today, explaining that they will wrap all links that spill over the character limit in their very own, new t.co shortener. What's really awesome about the ...

Normally, when you use Twitter’s search service, you can avoid clicking shortened URLs blindly – which is a security risk – by expanding them and taking a look at where they’ll be taking you exactly.

Tweetboard, a recently-launched product that lets you create a Twitter-powered forum on any site, is adding additional functionality by releasing a Twitter client, new API, and a URL shortener, called ...

Those with a keen eye may have noticed that Twitter has been tinkering with how it shortens links, by changing how they appear in tweets for a brief period overnight. (Screenshot by Michael Lee/ZDNet ...