URL shortening service Bitly has reset all user passwords in response to being hacked. “We have reason to believe that Bitly account credentials have been compromised,” Bitly wrote in a blog post. “We ...

Bitly late Thursday said it suspects that some "account credentials have been compromised." In a blog post, the link-shortening service said it disconnected its users' Facebook and Twitter accounts ...

We use URL shortening services so often these days we're seldom even aware of them. Until, that is, one of them fails. Today, one of the most popular of these, Bitly, stopped working for some users.

Google recently announced they will shut down their URL shortener, Goo.gl. Google will cease service for any new or anonymous users on April 13. Although existing users can continue to use the goo.gl ...

In this day and age, most of the links that we see on social media, and even in emails, are shortened links. And this is due to the character limits that we have on these platforms – with Twitter ...