Tinyurl

After numerous fleeting naggy thoughts, I finally took the time to find out what is a tiny url.

So that is what it is! A clever website that gives you a shorter url in return when you type in a super long one (especially those in deep links or those from search engines with advance controls properties), and then you may pass this short address to your friends for easy reference.

Then when you type in this url (tinyurl.com/XXXXX) you will be redirected to the original destination. Quite a niffy idea!

Of course, this has been around for ages. I just got to know it recently only, bleah!