So why not downgrade to the version you love because newer is not always bett. Anyone have some thoughts to why or alternatives for the iphone. When viewing the tweet on the original url or shortened version of the original url will be displayed. If there is something common to the vast majority of twitter desktop clients, it has to be, without a doubt, their ease of use, their speed and the fact that they integrate services that the original service doesnt include on the website, like a function to shorten urls or to store images. After adding the url, press the space bar to shorten it. The top 20 twitter clients hootsuite, tweetdeck and more. I have on my mac, but if tweetdeck is also creating.
The 10 best social media management applications of 2020. Tweetdeck is a nice desktop client see how to track keywordbased tweets within your twitter stream for more about it. Shorten urls with these 5 easy to use wordpress plugins. Shorten urls with shrinker by federico viticci i recently wrote an article about how you can create a lessn, bit. To do so, add the following line to the models which will act as owners. With the iphone and mac so popular, this one, of course, is popular. The shorturl safari extension adds a button in the browser toolbar which lets you shorten links with a single click. Its one of the most widely used options out there, and youll often find it integrated with lots of other services as well as thirdparty apps like tweetdeck and twitterfeed. On your mac, youll find a number of apps designed to help you create and share short urls easily, including short menu and shrinkr. Drag a url to the field at the top of the tweetdeck window to add it to a tweet. Therefore, as a twitter marketer who needs to track link performance, you should use bit. Sep 11, 2009 tweetdeck is probably the most popular client for twitter has landed as an application for the iphone and ipod touch. You can track engagement with your links using a url shortener and make improvements to your marketing campaigns. Running your own url shortener is fun, geeky and useful.
Learn how to shorten url links for twitter what do you want to learn. It is also integrated into several popular thirdparty tools, such as tweetdeck. Nov 22, 2019 between that and having no features outside of shortening urls, they are not on our top 10 list. Tweetdeck quick guide the internet has revolutionized the way we share. And with its builtin custom analytics system, the ability to monitor selected keywords plus the option to conveniently schedule posts whenever you want and do this all for free, hootsuite sets the bar high for competing social media management tools. Some url shorteners allow the user that is, the person shortening the url to log the targets ip address, even if the reader isnt visiting their site. Tweeting with macs 16 twitter clients compared and. Posting via tweetdeck is just as easy with the help of the apps powerful onboard tools. Once created, your link wont expire unless it has to be removed for spam, privacy, or legal reasons. Aug 22, 2018 our website provides a free download of tweetdeck 3. Our builtin antivirus checked this mac download and rated it as virus free. If youre looking for a simple extension to shorten urls, and shorten them well, i think weve found one.
On your mac, youll find a number of apps designed to help you create and. You simply copy and paste your link into the shorten box in tweetdeck and choose the url shortening service that you prefer. Upload a file to bitly share flickr on tweetdeck make website links show up. Best tweetdeck tips, tricks and use cases techie buzz. This will allow you to pass the owner when generating urls. Like its desktop counterpart tweetdeck is for the iphone and ipod touch is based on customizing columns one for each of the things such as responses to your tweets, direct messages. Twitter for mac is a desktop application designed specifically for the mac. Here comes the best url shortener for mac by federico viticci seems like i just cant enough of desktop urls shorteners.
After shortening the url, check how many clicks it received. In this ocean of tweaks and addons though, its easy to get lost. Tweetie lets you shorten urls with your choice of shortener. It lets you post to multiple accounts, add pictures, location tags, shorten urls, and mention contacts. Shorten url of web page, link, frameiframe, tab, image, mp3 drag and drop support on toolbarbutton. Tweetdeck only offers the ability to show them in separate columns. Link shortened automatically in tweetdeck control panel. You can monitor and post to several popular networks including both facebook personal profiles and business pages, twitter, linkedin, and others. Oct 23, 2009 best tweetdeck tips, tricks and use cases i have been using tweetdeck for quite sometime now, and i must admit that sometimes it is a bit of memory hogger. It is a sister app to the official iphone and ipad apps that was originally known as tweetie. In the past, users relied on linkshortening websites to shorten urls before.
Best way to see shortened urls without opening them. Im not familiar with tweetdeck, but the standard for link files i. Tweetdeck is a complete desktop client for the twitter social network that adds new features to the original service. You can link shortened urls to an owner, to scope them. It automatically grabs the current url in the clipboard when you need to shorten a link, and then puts the shortened link back into the clipboard. You can continue to use a url shortener to shorten links, and tracking metrics like those from bit. Because of the reasons listed above, twitter will shorten urls you post on twitter. Ive often wondered why twitter has a tweetdeck app in the app store for mac but doesnt have anything in the store for iphone or ipad.
Theres also a few new features we think youre going to love. Below are instructions on how to post a link in a tweet on the web and on your mobile device. How to shorten the url for tweet on tweeter stack overflow. Another reason to short urls is twitter that allows only 140 character long messages only, so if you post a long url on twitter, your word limit will be consumed by url only. Twitter automatically shortens your link to take up 19 characters within your. Url shortening services are certainly not new to the web, platforms like tinyurl have been around for over a decade now and has successfully shortened hundreds of millions of urls for its users. Fellow computerworld editor ken mingis, who uses the app on a mac im a pc person, has complained that, the autoshorten urls has been flakey and doesnt always work, and tweetdeck seems to. In fact, using the shrinkurl addon to the services menu i mentioned above, its possible to shorten the url directly in the address bar before mailing the link. The information can be a short sentence or a link to a web page or other. The client uses twitters own automatic and invisible url shortening whereby a link of any length will only. But if you shorten a link, you will add more character to your tweet. Upload pictures to twitpic and a few others and post to twitter. Many urlshortener services offer the option to track how many clicks each link gets. You can send receive tweets, shorten urls, send direct messages,attach.
Apr 21, 2011 as facebook and twitter usage goes through the roof so does the use we make of url shorteners. All links urls posted in tweets are shortened using our service. You can see how many people have clicked on your url by visiting goo. Below the paste your url here box, youll see the long version of your url and the short version. I need to make an url shorten for posting on tweeter using programmatically. Until then, you can always use another service to manually shorten your urls. Tweetdeck is also available as an app for iphone, ipad, android, pc and mac. It also integrates with the beloved photo tools, like twitpic, yfrog, and posterous. Creating and using a vanity url shortener can be a valuable asset to your. Many of us shorten urls all the time these days, to make them easier to share particularly on twitter and other social networks. This product has evolved into the current tweetdeck for mac app.
You can use all your favourite tweetdeck features on the iphone. If there is something common to the vast majority of twitter desktop clients, it has to be. When i would watch the mac ads with the nerdy pc guy and the cool mac dude i always secretly rooted for the pc guy. You may still want to track your urls to see how well your tweets are performing. Amazing how many mac users are also heavy tweeters.
Shorturl allows to reduce long links from facebook, youtube, twitter, linked in and top sites on the internet, just paste the long url and click the shorten url button. Really, since 1984 my first job doing professional software development i have been true blue microsoft. Twitterific is for iphone or the mac so i have not used this one. This free mac app is an intellectual property of twitter, inc. The 6 best url shorteners and how to choose the right one. No, we run all links through however, your links should always be displayed in their unshortened form. Tweetdeck and seesmic tweetdeck s direct competitor both offer numerous url shortener options bit. Tweetdeck allows you to group followers into categories, automatically shorten urls. Apr 07, 2008 in fact, using the shrinkurl addon to the services menu i mentioned above, its possible to shorten the url directly in the address bar before mailing the link. What you need a runtime environment, adobe air framework pre installed on your machine. These fall into two categories, those we use ourselves to shorten a url so we can post it on twitter and not exceed the 140 character limit and those which social networks automatically employ every time an item is promoted outside their own systems. If you want to shorten links to share with others, please see this help page on how to post links on twitter.
Create your own vanity url shortener computer skills tutorials. Since they uses adobe air, they are platform independent and runs on windows,linux and mac. Tweetdeck makes it easier for publishers, marketers and power users to track the realtime conversations they care about. Tweetdeck offers all that and much more a complete application to manage twitter accounts. Tweetdeck for mac is categorized as lifestyle tools. Apr 01, 2009 ive always been a microsoft fan, heavily invested in doing windows development. Im not being paid to say this i just genuinely, highly recommend tweetbot for ios. Is there any other way to make an long url to short url using php. The main difference between this service and the previous shortener is that the new one uses temporary files, and no perlunix, while the previous used a separate perlunix script to do its job. However, the fact that it is one of the best twitter clients available today, i continue to use it, albeit by tweaking it to use lesser memory and provide me with more functionality. Open your preferred mobile app, or begin a new text message. The shorturl safari extension adds a button in the browser toolbar which lets you shorten links with.
As you can see, theres more to shortening a long link using a url shortener. Twitter limits tweets to fewer than 280 characters. Peoplebrowsr is not the most attractive interface to be certain, but with a mutlicolumn view, automatic updates and a good feature set, it is perfect for tweetdeck users that want as close to a desktop app experience on the web. Now you can rightclick on any url and shorten it, which is useful for sites like twitter. Tweetdeck is your personal browser for staying in touch with whats happening now. This is a mac service that will take a regular url and return a short one using the bit. Best twitter apps for mac there are a number of different macos apps for twitter users, but which is the best app to use. A simple safari extension to shorten urls macstories. May 26, 2010 since they uses adobe air, they are platform independent and runs on windows,linux and mac. And, you can join the conversation by tweeting, sharing photos and links to news stories, and more. Heres an easy way to shorten any url in any application.
Shortened links allow you to share long urls in a tweet while maintaining the maximum number of characters for your message. At the other end of the spectrum are apps like tweetdeck, an adobe air application, for the twitter poweruser. How to use tweetdeck for business noisy little monkey. Because urls are sometimes quite long, links entered in tweets may need to be. On the next screen, copy the shortened url and share it on websites, chat and email. Tweetdeck is a nice desktop client see how to track keywordbased tweets within your.
Better yet, you can drag an image file into the tweet area and tweetie will upload it to one of the services for you, create the link, and put it in your tweet. Users typically trust branded urls over the long and possibly spamfilled urls. Website, tweetdeck tweetdeck is a social media dashboard application for management of twitter accounts. Between that and having no features outside of shortening urls, they are not on our top 10 list. Apr 04, 2009 until then, you can always use another service to manually shorten your urls. Branded short links receive up to 39% more clicks than generic links. Tweetdeck and seesmic tweetdecks direct competitor both offer numerous urlshortener options bit.