It seems like everyone and their mother now has their own URL shortening service, or at least their own short domain. Short URLs have almost become a branding thing. But as the use of short links ...

Link-shortening service Bit.ly was down for a period of time last night, but the service appears to be working just fine now. Last night, CNET editors found first that Bit.ly links were not working ...

The default link shortener on Twitter, bit.ly, just keeps getting bigger. In March, 3.4 billion bit.ly-shortened links were clicked on, up from 2.7 billion in February and only 87 million a year ago.