Category: URL Shorteners

The jotURL shortener is a high-end shortener that applies a variety of safety checks and marketing information about about the content you’re linking. This is helpful if your sharing and following audiences need a higher confidence than normal that the content you’re sharing is safe, secure, and up to date. Configuration is much like any […]

YOURLS will need the URL where you send queries for shortening URLS and your YOURLS signature token. The YOURLS signature token can be retrieved from your YOURLS administration pages. Additionally, YOURLS supports a few different options within XPoster for how short URLS are created. They can use the post ID (which may look like https://your.ls/7328), […]

Google Analytics settings allow you to configure UTM parameters for your XPoster links. These will work either with or without a URL shortener. By default, no analytics are enabled. You can set them up with either a static campaign identifier (the same code added to all links), or with a dynamic identifier. The dynamic identifier […]

By default, XPoster does not enable a URL shortener. With most services, there is no need for a URL shortener. URL shorteners are largely a historical feature, dating back to a time when the number of characters in your URL were counted against your character limits in a status update. But modern social media services […]

Selecting a URL shortener is at your personal preference. In practice, all URLs of any kind are shortened by X.com’s own shortening service at http://t.co. Your shortened URL may display instead of the t.co URL in the web site or in a client; but the URL has still been shortened under the hood. If you […]