Its been sometime since I got on to twitter. And every time I happen to tweet a link, I watch my incredibly long urls magically shrink to a few chars. A few days ago, I happened to do a quick google search on url shortening that revealed some interesting info and I soon found myself playing with it. Here’s what came out of it. URL shorteners are used to transform huge, ugly looking, difficult to remember (and manage) urls into short urls.
