Say goodbye to the bit.lys that pervade your Twitter stream, along with all the other custom URL shorteners from your favorite publications. Twitter is rolling out its own way to shorten those unruly ...

Twitter has just announced that to protect people from scams, links in direct messages and sent via email will be shortened using its own URL shortener. It’s a welcome move. Still, I was curious about ...

Twitter has just announced at its Chirp developer conference that it will be launching its own URL shortener. The company feels forcing using to leave twitter.com to shorten a link is absurd and ...

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 ...

When we talked about the new Twitter link shortening functions yesterday, we were going by what we understood from the Twitter blog. Come to find out, while we weren’t entirely wrong in our ...

The microblogging service plans to wrap and abbreviate all links shared on the site in the same way other URL-shortening services such as Bit.ly do. Steven Musil is a senior news editor at CNET News.