I’ve gotten a ton of helpful and interesting links from my Twitter group and I would like to return the favor, but I’ve had a challenge that I’m sure is not unique.
How do you get rid of a butt-ugly url that’s to long for Twitter and a few explaining words?An example is from the new blog by my friend Lauren Hager named Lauren Hager listens and shares. In my personal blog Daily Grit, I wrote a post about my friend’s efforts and provided some context explaining why readers might be interested visiting. This is the full url and below is how it looks:
http://westhorp.typepad.com/dailygrit/2009/01/can-lauren-hagers-blog-become-a-listening-post-for-his-part-of-michigan.html
My question: Is there a way to shorten the url to make it shareable on Twitter so I have room enough for a few explaining words. Even with the tinyurl, there are still too many words.
To do this am I limited to short post titles?
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Wes, I am not sure I understand the question. Here is my tiny URL for this post: http://tinyurl.com/cazhyu
Am I missing something?
Dave–In past, I’ve tried to share some links on Twitter where the URLs have been extremely long. Typepad takes the post title or headline and uses that in the web address. For a lot of Twitter situations, this leaves just a few characters to explain. I thought the original URL was shortened right on Twitter. But several times, it was still too long.
Justin showed me http://www.tinyurl.com where you can have a mega url and translate it into something shorter.
Because the title is used in the URL, I thought I’d have to start using basic labels. I’m glad to see that’s not the case.
Wes
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