1.0Pingler Bloghttps://pingler.com/blogrich600338<blockquote class="wp-embedded-content" data-secret="B255vu0naG"><a href="https://pingler.com/blog/url-shorteners-whats-the-point/">URL Shorteners – What’s the Point?</a></blockquote><iframe sandbox="allow-scripts" security="restricted" src="https://pingler.com/blog/url-shorteners-whats-the-point/embed/#?secret=B255vu0naG" width="600" height="338" title="“URL Shorteners – What’s the Point?” — Pingler Blog" data-secret="B255vu0naG" frameborder="0" marginwidth="0" marginheight="0" scrolling="no" class="wp-embedded-content"></iframe><script type="text/javascript"> /* <![CDATA[ */ /*! This file is auto-generated */ !function(d,l){"use strict";l.querySelector&&d.addEventListener&&"undefined"!=typeof URL&&(d.wp=d.wp||{},d.wp.receiveEmbedMessage||(d.wp.receiveEmbedMessage=function(e){var t=e.data;if((t||t.secret||t.message||t.value)&&!/[^a-zA-Z0-9]/.test(t.secret)){for(var s,r,n,a=l.querySelectorAll('iframe[data-secret="'+t.secret+'"]'),o=l.querySelectorAll('blockquote[data-secret="'+t.secret+'"]'),c=new RegExp("^https?:$","i"),i=0;i<o.length;i++)o[i].style.display="none";for(i=0;i<a.length;i++)s=a[i],e.source===s.contentWindow&&(s.removeAttribute("style"),"height"===t.message?(1e3<(r=parseInt(t.value,10))?r=1e3:~~r<200&&(r=200),s.height=r):"link"===t.message&&(r=new URL(s.getAttribute("src")),n=new URL(t.value),c.test(n.protocol))&&n.host===r.host&&l.activeElement===s&&(d.top.location.href=t.value))}},d.addEventListener("message",d.wp.receiveEmbedMessage,!1),l.addEventListener("DOMContentLoaded",function(){for(var e,t,s=l.querySelectorAll("iframe.wp-embedded-content"),r=0;r<s.length;r++)(t=(e=s[r]).getAttribute("data-secret"))||(t=Math.random().toString(36).substring(2,12),e.src+="#?secret="+t,e.setAttribute("data-secret",t)),e.contentWindow.postMessage({message:"ready",secret:t},"*")},!1)))}(window,document); //# sourceURL=https://pingler.com/blog/wp-includes/js/wp-embed.min.js /* ]]> */ </script> If you use social networking – in particular, Twitter – on a daily basis, then you have probably seen many different truncated URLs that look almost too short to be real. These types of links are generated by URL shorteners, which take an often unmanageable URL with dozens of characters and shorten it down to […]http://pingler.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/URL-Shorteners-300x160.png