Alternative to TinyURL – I prefer SnipURL

March 19th, 2009   Posted by ted in Findings, Reviews, Software, Uncategorized

Everyone has their favorite little utilities, especially when it comes to taking long gangly links and shortening them for Twitter and other social apps. I like SnipURL.com best because it has a great cross-browser bookmarks bar button that converts links on-click (gotta love javascript). Here’s what else it does:

- it seems faster than TinyURL (although as of today I noticed 500,000+ snips, and their total is 28 million so they are getting lots of traffic suddenly too with the popularity of Twitter)
- it has tracking and management of snips
- the browser button is great

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7 Responses to “Alternative to TinyURL – I prefer SnipURL”

  1. shorten url  July 10th, 2009

    short url service from germany with only 20 indications http:/03e.de anonymous and faster then tinyurl or bit ly

  2. sunny  July 10th, 2009

    I used http://kaano.info
    Because it hase easy GUI
    and its AJAX BASED so Fast response.

  3. Bill Gates  September 16th, 2009

    Also twlinx.com which lets you choose exactly how the short URL will look like! Dot com domains are generally better because they don’t look suspicious and awkward to novice viewers (e.g. is.gd and bit.ly look suspicious)

  4. Clarence W. Diaz  November 7th, 2009

    You can also use http://TinyIt.info . It’s great.

  5. Erica  December 15th, 2009

    I’ve found another one at: http://www.myurlshortener.com

    and hundered of similar working sites at

    http://www.tinyurlalternative.com

  6. charles  December 16th, 2009

    thanks, erica. our readers will find this helpful.

  7. Anon  December 19th, 2009

    http://protect.skiplife.com

    There is one with password protection.

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