In this open-source Python project tutorial, you'll learn how to create a fully functional URL shortener application using PyQt for the graphical user interface. Follow along to turn long URLs into ...

Don't lose customers or potential clients with long URLs – when sent via email or instant message, such URL can be rendered unclickable by line breaks. Some social networks don't accept URL strings ...

Since Twitter limits messages to 140 characters, users have quickly come to depend on “URL shorteners.” These free services take the long URLs for links that we find on the Web and shrink them to a ...

When you post on Twitter, you only have 140 characters to say what you need to say -- every letter, number and space counts. If you're sharing a link to a website, a long URL leaves you little to no ...

The Twitter Blog announced they are now testing expanding their Twitter based URL shortening service, t.co on URLs that are long. The main difference here is that they will show a portion of the real ...