Anyone who has used Twitter has seen those shortened URLs from TinyURL.com , Bitly , and other such services . The advantage of those shortened URLs is that they take up less space, which can be very important on Twitter, where messages are limited to no more than 140 characters, but the disadvantage is that you don’t know where you’re going until you’re already there.
Unlike regular URLs, which show the actual domain to which you’re navigating, these are meaningless codes that give you no...
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