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How to Shorten Your Urls So You Can Add More To Your Twitter Message

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Shorten Your Urls So You Can Add More To Your Twitter Message
Shorten Your Urls So You Can Add More To Your Twitter Message

In this article I will show you how to shorten your Urls so you can write more in your twitter messages.

Difficulty: Easy
Instructions

Things You'll Need:

  • A url
  1. Step 1

    The first thing that you will have to do is go to this website http://tr.im/ its free and safe so no worries.

  2. Step 2

    Now find the really long url that you want to put in a twitter message and copy it.

  3. Step 3

    Now paste the url in the "tr.im your long URL" box and click the tr.im button.

  4. Step 4

    As you can see it made your url smaller so you can now write more in your twitter message.

  5. Step 5

    You can either copy the url and go use it on twitter or you can write your message in the box and log in with your twitter info(Its safe don't worry) and tr.im will tweet the message for you.

  6. Step 6

    Now tr.im will show a graph of how many people have clicked on your url.

  7. Step 7

    You can use this feature on other websites besides twitter

Tips & Warnings
  • Add me on twitter
  • Be creative with your tweets because more people will check it out
  • Make sure that you put in the right url
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on 9/9/2009 good directions for How to Shorten Your Urls So You Can Add More To Your Twitter Message. 5*

cb4me said

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on 7/6/2009 I use tinyurl but your explanation is very helpful!

mweise said

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on 6/15/2009 I am all about Twitter. I not only added this article to my eHow Favorites, I bookmarked it in my web browser! Thanks for telling me something I desperately need to know :) 5*

wdk40 said

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on 5/29/2009 Space is an issue. I use microsoft access and the shorter you make your formulas the better.

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on 5/29/2009 This is very cool. Thanks! See you on Twitter!

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