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Why StumbleUpon’s Su.pr is the URL Shortener of Choice

July 15, 2009 Tech Comments

Fans of bit.ly , DiggBar , ow.ly , or any of the gazillion URL shorteners out there will object. They will ask, “What makes su.pr so special?” StumbleUpon has done a great job at putting together the best features that are available on some shorteners and added a few things that that are less common or completely unique.  The only thing they haven’t done yet is properly publicize this amazing package of a URL shortener. You probably know these things… It shortens URLs as small or smaller than anyone else with a 4-character domain You can post to Twitter and Facebook like a few of the shorteners, as well as thumbing up and reviewing on StumbleUpon itself It has very decent real-time analytics that give separates out clicks from stumbles, shows retweets, and displays accounts that thumbed up the content on SU.

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