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Joel bookmarked on 2009-07-05 bitly URL Sharing stats
  • The core Bit.ly service, which lets users shorten web URLs into something suitable for Twitter and other services with limits on characters per post, has continued to grow quickly. 7 million URLs are shortened via the service each day, the company says, and 2-3 million of those are unique URLs Bit.ly has not seen before. Those Bit.ly URLs are clicked on 150 million times per week across a wide range of services - Twitter, Facebook, instant messaging, email, etc. Twitter itself now uses Bit.ly for URl shortening, and the service has quickly taken the lead in their market.
  • bit.ly has been on a tear since we launched it last summer — let me sketch out what it is, why its useful and offer some data points on progress. bit.ly is on its surface a link or URL shortener, helping people take long and unwieldy links and make them short and easy to share via email, Twitter, Facebook etc. But once you shorten a link with bit.ly the fun begins. You can put a simple “+” on the end of any bit.ly link and see, real time, the pace at which that link is getting shared and clicked on as it moves around these social distribution networks.
  • But only 20,000 or so new links a day are submitted to Digg (compare that to 2-3 million for Bit.ly). And Digg has to constantly fight users who try to game the system and get access to home page traffic. They also rely on users to categorize links and provide other metadata about the stories.

  • I grew tired of Digg a year or so ago. I think a lot of early adopters may have left due to all the trolls and immaturity of the comments. One story in particular that got dugg to the top was about this poor nerdy kid who put up a singles ad & the vicious mob just ripped him apart for putting himself out there; poor kid!


    It no doubt is still huge, but for me I find Twitter to be a better place to find, share & converse about interesting links with trusted sources.

  • Yes, indeed. Twitter has grossly reduced the value of Digg. Once upon a time, Digg was everything for information sharing. Now it is Twitter. The very fact that Twitter’s trending topics have become the talk of great blogs like TC is evident of its growth as an information sharing medium.


    Now, with Bit.ly planning to launch Bit.ly Now, Digg may suffer a huge setback. Digg has to find out new ways to redeem itself, for sure.

  • Poor old tinyurl, who was it that was writing a year ago that this is what they should have been doing?

This link has been bookmarked by 1 people . It was first bookmarked on 05 Jul 2009, by Joel Liu.

  • 05 Jul 09
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    bitly URL Sharing stats

    • The core Bit.ly service, which lets users shorten web URLs into something suitable for Twitter and other services with limits on characters per post, has continued to grow quickly. 7 million URLs are shortened via the service each day, the company says, and 2-3 million of those are unique URLs Bit.ly has not seen before. Those Bit.ly URLs are clicked on 150 million times per week across a wide range of services - Twitter, Facebook, instant messaging, email, etc. Twitter itself now uses Bit.ly for URl shortening, and the service has quickly taken the lead in their market.
    • bit.ly has been on a tear since we launched it last summer — let me sketch out what it is, why its useful and offer some data points on progress. bit.ly is on its surface a link or URL shortener, helping people take long and unwieldy links and make them short and easy to share via email, Twitter, Facebook etc. But once you shorten a link with bit.ly the fun begins. You can put a simple “+” on the end of any bit.ly link and see, real time, the pace at which that link is getting shared and clicked on as it moves around these social distribution networks.
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