Bit.ly Links Get Clicked 3.4 Billion Times A Month

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  1. Brandon

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    If you are on Twitter, then you might know of a popular URL shortner called bit.ly.
    It's the default setting in several clients, mobile and window/mac based.
    I like it because if you add a + ad the end of a link, you can see the stats.. like this link
    http://bit.ly/1ZqXYW+
    http://bit.ly/8PQnuF+

    Here is a snippet of the techcrunch article.

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    The default link shortener on Twitter, bit.ly, just keeps getting bigger. In March, 3.4 billion bit.ly-shortened links were clicked on, up from 2.7 billion in February and only 87 million a year ago. Yesterday was a record day for bit.ly, with 147 million clicks (see chart).
    
    Even though Twitter still dominates, more than half of all bit.ly links are encoded somewhere besides Twitter.com. Of the 40-50% created within the Twitter ecosystem, a large chunk occurs via Twitter clients and services. But other services such as Facebook are growing as well. About 100 million clicks last month went to Facebook. The diversification will only matter if Twitter ever decides to replace bit.ly as the default shortener with something like twee.tt, which Twitter owns. But there is no indication any change is imminent. The Promoted Tweets which Twitter is about to roll out as its first advertising effort, for instance, use bit.ly links.
    Bit.ly Links Get Clicked 3.4 Billion Times A Month, New Features Coming
     

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    Jesus, thats quite a few click hehe.
     
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    just a few
    if only we could get them all redirected to this forum :D
     
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    Yes, then I could bribe you to forward all the traffic to mine <3
     
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    there you go, with 3.4 Billion, we could split it and both be happy :D
     
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    Meh, I'd rather get all the hits and then make you jelous.

    It would amuse me =P
     

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