Twitter's new Fabric platform aims to make it easy for app developers to connect with their customers Credit: Photo: PA Twitter’s URL shortener, t.co, is reportedly being used by spammers to trick web ...

Google announced that they will continue to support some links created by the deprecated goo.gl URL shortening service, saying that 99% of the shortened URLs receive no traffic. They were previously ...

Google may have partially walked back a plan to deprecate all shortened goo.gl links, but millions of links that rely on the link shortener will still break before the end of August. Links created ...

Google had planned to shut down its own URL shortener for good at the end of August 2025, meaning that Internet addresses abbreviated with goo.gl will no longer work. However, around three weeks ...

Now Google is officially retiring its long running URL shortening service. From next month, starting August 25, 2025, any link using the “https://goo.gl/” format will stop working. Instead of ...

Link Rot: URL shortening is a technique designed to turn long web addresses into shorter, more manageable links. This process can make life easier for web visitors, but it can also introduce a new ...