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• Stocktwits gets funding, Bit.ly get’s safer, Cli.gs gets bought

  
  TheWayoftheWeb — Authority: 117
  The Twitter ecosystem is busy as always, so rather than try to write 20 posts to cover everything purely for SEO benefit, I thought I’d round up three things which stood out: Stocktwits has gained $3 million in another round of financing for the social and microblogging network for the stock market. It’s ...
  4 hours ago

• Sophos Partners with Bit.ly to Provide Extra Security

  
  Takes On Tech — Authority: 143
  IT security and data protection firm Sophos announced that it has entered into an agreement with bit.ly, a utility used to shorten, share, and track links, to assist them in protecting users against visiting webpages that may contain a malware, spam or phishing threat. According to Sophos, 23,500 new infected ...
  14 hours ago

• Bit.ly To Help Reduce Amount of Spammers

  
  iePlexus — Authority: 137
  Scams and spam could be soon off the Internet.  Well, maybe not anytime soon, but at least bit.ly, a service that shorten URL’s, is working on changing that.  With websites like Twitter, where you are only allowed to type 140 characters, shorten URL services are becoming more common and a target for spam.  The ...
  1 day ago

• Face it – Facebook ain’t Face time

  
  Being Positive — Authority: 100
  It’s true, as previously discussed , software most definitely does affect the way we behave in business today. This was hilariously vindicated by the BBC programme which excoriated PowerPoint , even suggesting it may be responsible for nations going to war. The players in collaboration software obviously think ...
  1 day ago

• Sun viral video started with Twitter paid advertising

  
  140Char — Authority: 118
  UK newspaper The Sun is getting plenty of online coverage for a viral video it has created to capitalise on the interest in Apple’s rumoured tablet computer. But what noone has mentioned is that the seeding started with paid Twitter advertising from Be A Magpie (referral link)… And I know that because I’ve ...
  1 day ago

• Bit.ly to Extend Spam and Malware Protection for bit.ly Links

  
  Technically Inspired — Authority: 136
  The default URL shortener for Twitter , bit.ly going to provide more protection to users from malware and spam links . Bit.ly is adding 3 news services to extend their spam and malware protection they are currently offering to bit.ly users. Bit.y to add VeriSign’s iDefence IP reputation service which ...
  1 day ago

• Bit.ly Is Battling Spam With The Help Of VeriSign, Sophos, and Websense

  
  Pulse2 - Technology News And Reviews — Authority: 514
  Bit.ly is the biggest URL shortening service thanks to the popularity of Twitter.  Given that websites and files are masked by Bit.ly, spammers and virus artists are taking advantage of the situation.  A normal message may be followed by a Bit.ly URL that links to a malicious website.  In a blog post from earlier ...
  1 day ago

• Sophos and bit.ly - making short links safer

  
  Graham Cluley's blog — Authority: 715
  Heres some good news if youre one of the millions of people who have come to depend upon shortened urls in your day-to-day life. bit.ly, isnt just the default link shortening service used by Twitter, its also widely used on other social networking sites and communications as a handy way to shorten a link. For ...
  1 day ago

• Bit.ly Moves to Combat Twitter Scams

  
  Mashable! — Authority: 867
  Twitter spam and scams : We know that they have been appearing more frequently and have become more dangerous . And it’s been a problem since relatively early on for Twitter. The scammers are smart though and have beaten Twitter’s defenses consistently. Now Twitter’s default URL shortener, Bit.ly , has ...
  1 day ago

• What’s Behind That Short Link? Bit.ly Steps Up Its Efforts To Sniff Out Spam.

  
  TechCrunch — Authority: 888
  With the rise of Twitter, we’ve also seen the rise of link shorteners (standard URLS take up too many characters). The king of the link shorteners right now is bit.ly , which is the default shortener on Twitter and accounts for more than 75 percent of all short URLs on the service. Every month, bit.ly shortens ...
  2 days ago

• What’s Behind That Short Link? Bit.ly Steps Up Its Efforts To Sniff Out Spam.

  
  Technology Pundit — Authority: 170
  With the rise of Twitter, we’ve also seen the rise of link shorteners (standard URLS take up too many characters). The king of the link shorteners right now is bit.ly , which is the default shortener on Twitter and accounts for more than 75 percent of all short URLs on the service.
  2 days ago

• Bit.ly Moves to Combat Twitter Scams

  
  PORTCITYUNDERGROUND — Authority: 175
  Twitter spam and scams : We know that they have … Go here to read the rest: Bit.ly Moves to Combat Twitter Scams
  2 days ago

• Branding Yourself For Twitter

  
  Learn Free Internet Marketing Learn Free Internet Marketing Strategies using Video, Articles, Social Networking, Social Media, Web 2.0, Blogs, Affiliate Marketing — Authority: 167
  How to change your photo, customize your twitter background, add your twitter RSS to Google Reader, Url Shorteners that track clicks, tweet memes, tweet later, scheduled tweets and setting up your twitter account settings.. and more! Share on Facebook
  2 days ago

• Shortened URLs driving up mobile internet traffic

  
  GoMo News — Authority: 559
  Rating: Novarra puts some figures on our gut feelings We’ve always suspected that services like Twitter are driving up mobile internet usage, but Novarra has managed to put some figures on it. Would you believe that mobile click-throughs driven by shortened URLs have grown by 1,068 per cent so far in 2009? ...
  1 week ago

• Twitter’s URL shortening technique makes copy/paste difficult

  
  First initial, last name. — Authority: 139
  Twitter, by default, uses Bit.ly to shorten URLs for use with SMS, the API, etc. But on its Web site Twitter shows you the original URL (or at least part of it) so that people know where they’ll be going if they click on the link. Or, at least that is why I think they are doing it. If they were to keep the Bit.ly ...
  1 week ago

• Giving Thanks, SEO pushing a button, 5 free listings

  
  Internet Marketing Tips - Wordpress Blog Creation — Authority: 115
  I enjoy finding videos that have a positive and uplifting theme. Today’s Video is one that is great for this season of giving Thanks. http://bit.ly/igivethanks Here is a new free report on ‘finding niches made easy’ and it free to do. Peter Drew of EVO2: SEO on steroids fame shows you how easy it is to find ...
  1 week ago

• D.C. Agenda Already Labeled Spam By Twitter

  
  Queerty — Authority: 712
  Well this isnt going to be good for traffic. [ Bit.ly , the URL shortening service used on Twitter] CONTINUED » Permalink | 2 comments | Add to D.C. Agenda Already Labeled Spam By Twitter"> D.C. Agenda Already Labeled Spam By Twitter">del.icio.us Tagged: bit.ly , d.c. agenda , Media , ...
  1 week ago

• RT: Chat Catcher Temporary Service Issues

  
  My Philly Network — Authority: 145
  Via email: Chat Catcher Announcement Greetings, I’d like to make everyone aware of an issue we are having in processing your comments.  The  bit.ly url shortening service temporarily blocked Chat Catcher and we were not able to expand  bit.ly urls.  This has prevented us from linking comments ...
  1 week ago

• Shorten urls with bit.ly web API and VBA

  
  Code For Excel And Outlook Blog — Authority: 415
      Turns out you can shorten URLs easily with bit.ly. In More XMLHTTP Web API examples I mentioned that it was difficult, because bit.ly returns an XML document which must be parsed for the response.     Apparently bit.ly can also return just the shortened URL. So without further ado, here is the extremely ...
  1 week ago

• Betaworks Continues its Local Winning Streak

  
  NYConvergence - A digest of New York, New Jersey, and Connecticut digital media technology news — Authority: 508
  This week, the annual event Betaday was hosted in New York by local incubator Betaworks , a "next generation media company," according to The Deal.com .  In the article, Betaworks is referenced as an important part of the New York tech startup community as it has helped local  companies develop their ...
  2 weeks ago

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