You know how the process is, you go to Twitter, you keep Twitter open, you start to navigate, find something interesting, want to share, put the link, shorten it and go! Twitter shares information without spending a lot of your precious and sexy probably 140 characters, all this thanks to that visionary people decided to shorten long Internet addresses to be transformed – by magic – in a few characters.

The former king was Tinyurl with many people using this service, they were still unclear on how to properly monetize almost immediately and the proliferation of companies that began offering this service for many is irrelevant, but actually measures the pulse of many heavy users of twitter.

As we all know Bit.ly dethroned Tinyurl in this burgeoning new market since Twitter Bit.ly chose as its default url shortening, so much that has grown an impressive 12% compared to similar services like Tinyurl or Tr.im. like this, so let’s  review the standings of this market segment in America.

- Bit.ly: 6.43 million visitors, a growth of +12.65% between August and September

- TinyURL: 5.55 million visitors, down -1.47% in August and September

- Is.gd: 631.000 visitors, down -13.66% from August and September

- Tr.im: 416.000 visitors, down -39.87% from August and September

- Ow.ly: 1.41 million visitors, a growth of +9.45% between August and September

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