What is a URL?

The acronym URL is a shortening that suggests "Uniform Resource Locator", in Spanish its translation can be "Uniform Resource Locator". It is also known as an internet deal.

A URL is a formatted textual content string used by web browsers, email buyers, and various software programs to determine a useful community resource on the Web. Community sources are information that can be simple web pages, documents with different textual content, graphics, or packages.

Bitly is a free service with which you can shorten long URLs. The company is based in New York and was founded by Peter Stern in 2008.

With 46% utilization, the URL shortening bit is currently the market leader in this space and recently overtook its competitor Tinyurl.com.

The Twitter post took credit for the rise that bit.ly was now the default service for shortening long web addresses.

At the same time, Twitter is the central context for the appearance of URL shorteners, since a tweet cannot exceed 280 characters. Every character counts and every character in a URL counts too. Google+ profiles are sometimes characterized by long trails of numbers and can be shortened with a URL shortener.