Bit.ly dethrones Tinyurl
I’m actually surprised it took this long
While this market has a lot of competitors, two big players dominate the space: Bit.ly (bit.ly) and TinyURL. For a long time, TinyURL was winning the war, despite Bit.ly’s advanced features. The game changed though when Bit.ly became Twitter’s default URL shortener.
New numbers from Compete.com (which measures U.S. traffic stats) now reveal a major development in the URL shortener market: Bit.ly has now dethroned TinyURL as the largest URL shortener on the web.
I wrote about the URL shortener wars a few weeks ago at PBS’ Mediashift.
