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Pretty much only used as a hack for sms character limit, or for making urls “prettier” when they get absurdly long with lots of parameters.
by dkasper 3y ago
Pretty much only used as a hack for sms character limit, or for making urls “prettier” when they get absurdly long with lots of parameters.
- toomuchtodo 3y agoThey are commonly used to track opens by marketing. https://bitly.com/pages/solutions/digital-marketing https://bitly.com/pages/solutions/digital-marketing https://bitly.com/blog/how-to-use-bitly-for-digital-marketing/ https://bitly.com/blog/how-to-use-bitly-for-digital-marketin...
- netsharc 3y agoIn the old days bit.ly didn't protect the stats page, adding a "+" at the end of a bit.ly link would show them to anyone. (Hits over time, referer pages). It was interesting to see how disinterested people were about some promotions.