South West eCommerce

Bit.ly is a free service to people and businesses who want to use social bookmarking, vitally, twitter.  The need to use less keystrokes is obvious when you’ve only got 140 to share your whole message, taking 10 or more keystrokes out of a URL can be vital.

Bit.ly has a few other advantages, too.  The biggest from our point of view is the ability to track your links, so you know whether your tweets are sending people to the places you have in mind.  Clever use of them can allow split testing, so you can tell which of your messages are appealing to people, and you can refine your communications.

Signing up is quite simple and when you have used twitter, facebook and other social bookmarking services as part of your business for a while, you’ll quickly figure out it’s value.  Try it now, or keep us in mind and come back when you need to.