Twitter Friendly Links
By Konstantin Kovshenin (http://kovshenin.com/)
Why it's awesome: Creates very short URLs for you blog
Why it was picked: Easy to install, nice widget
Manual Install URL: http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/twitter-friendly-links/
Automatic Install search term: Twitter Friendly Links
Geek level: Webmaster
Configuration location: Settings | Twitter Friendly Links
Used in: Posts, pages
Thanks to Twitter's 140 character limit, an entirely new marketplace bubbled up—insanely short URLs. Companies like Bit.ly,TinyUrl.com, and is.gd offer to shrink your huge URLs in return for super tiny ones.
One problem with these types of URL shrinkers is that you ultimately lose control of your URLs. If any of those services went out of business, so would all of those links you plastered over Twitter, Facebook, and LinkedIn.
Twitter Friendly Links helps you regain that control over your links in a very simple and brilliant way—by transforming your long URL like http://domain.com...
