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URLXray: X-ray vision for short-urls for Twitter

by Aditya Kane on October 6, 2010

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URLXray: X-ray vision for short-urls for Twitter

Many Twitter users had to deal with mouseover issue with Twitter. This was created because of a security vulnerability on Twitter. That vulnerability has been fixed for now but one of the most basic vulnerable part of Twitter are the short URL’s. The reason is mainly that we do not know where we are being directed. This makes it a little dangerous.

URLXray is a nice online tool to quick look up a short URL and display the complete URL. This usually is very useful if you are using Twitter through the browser and not a desktop application.

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Check where shortened URLs redirect you to with Unhid

by Aditya Kane on November 15, 2009

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Check where shortened URLs redirect you to with Unhid

NOTE: Unhid has not been working for a while now. URLXray is a an alternative. Read more about it here. Shortened URLs have been very useful, especially with the rise of Twitter. The problem is shortened URLs give you no …

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The shortest URL shortener

by sauravjit on September 30, 2009

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The shortest URL shortener

URL shortners are nowadays a necessity for bloggers and website owners because it makes our links convenient to post on twitter, Facebook e.t.c. Also there’s a word limit (140 characters) on the most popular micro blogging website  twitter. So obviously …

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7 Shortest URL Shorteners

by Richie S on September 1, 2009

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7 Shortest URL Shorteners

TinyURL, Burn URL et al have been around for a long time. The main purpose of these sites was to accept a long url from the user and return a short url to them, which redirects to the original page. For eg. I submit something like http://www.devilsworkshop.org/10-services-to-shorten-long-urls/#comment-113577 to TinyURL and it returns http://tinyurl.com/n74g63. This will redirect to the original page at DW. However it seems even these url shortners are too long for some people!

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