How to reduce URL length

How to reduce URL length
Hi, i have a Twitter account and have seen that if we drop any URL over ther, it gets shorten automatically. For me, that is really impressive as doing so we can get some more extra space for text. I think this can be useful in case of forum or a mail or a web address extension. So, i just wanted to know how can we reduce the length of any URL ? Any help will be appreciated.
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Old 05-02-2010
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Re: How to reduce URL length
When URLs are too long, it is sometimes uncomfortable to share ... Especially on Twitter, where messages are limited to 140 characters. The reduction services URLs make it possible, from a full address copied and pasted, to generate a much shorter address that refer to the corresponding site, but in drastically reducing the number of characters. TinyUrl is the service to communicate more easily a long and complicated web page address (URL) in the shortening automatically. Several services exist like TinyURL or is.gd and even have extensions for your convenience with your browser.
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Old 05-02-2010
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Re: How to reduce URL length
TinyURL is a service reduction addresses the most popular, partly because it is one of the oldest. Always as effective. Just follow this steps to shorten your URL:

Open the home page of TinyURL
You'll find there a button named as make Tinyurl, click on it.
Copy paste the link you want to shorten in the field provided on the tinyurl site.
The service offers you define your own aliases, but shorter names are common and already used. At all events, enter an alias you think is free, the service will offer an alias if random is not available.
Click the Make TinyURL
Then select the address provided by TinyURL reduced.
Thats it !!

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You can also install TinyUrl toolbar on your browsers to do the job faster. This will help you to create faster reduced URLs to the pages you visit daily. To do so visit tinyurl.ourtoolbar.com. Right click on the link TinyURL and select Add to Favorites. Click Yes. croll and select Create in the favorites folder pane and click Add. If it is not already displayed the Favorites in Internet Explorer by right clicking with the mouse in the tab bar and choose the command Strand favorites.

When you want to create a small shortcut to a webpage, open it and click the button TinyURL. Click Allow Access. TinyURL will provide you the shorten URL link.
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Alternatively, if you are Firefox user, you can have Spedr firefox extension that enables you to create short URLs by clicking an icon in url bar. Install this addon to your browser. To use it, Click over spedr icon in the firefox url bar. Wait a second while extension connects with spedr.com ... Done!

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