Comments on: 12 Ways To Reveal Suspicious Shortened URLs!

By: Tim

Tim — Fri, 26 Feb 2010 15:15:14 +0000

We always use http://UNfwd4.me in the office, seems to work with pretty much all 301-type shorteners

By: Ching Ya

Ching Ya — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 08:42:02 +0000

Alex,

Good job on the improvements. I’ve updated the position and content for ExpandMyURL. Let’s do some justice for the service by a few tweets, shall we?

Thanks again.

By: Alex

Alex — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 17:40:23 +0000

Hi Ching Ya, first off fantastic in depth post about short urls and great review of the short url expanders.

We initially made http://www.expandmyurl.com as a personal project because we thought the lack of transparency of shortURLs posed a danger to web users especially with the growing popularity of sites like Twitter and put it online because we hoped that other people might find it useful too.

However as your review showed we hadn’t kept up with all the latest shorteners and as we don’t like to be last at anything we’ve now updated expandmyurl to expand su.pr and ow.ly shortURLs.

We haven’t got round to teak.tk yet because of their strange url structure but when we tested other lengthening services like prevurl we found they didn’t work wither (test url: http://5o8ue.tk).

But one test we think is very important and one we are proud that expandmyurl.com does pass is when you chain shortURLs together one inside the other like this http://digg.com/u1dwX expandmyurl.com will return the final nonshort url.

Hope we can be reconsidered/re-evaluated with these improvements

Alex
expandmyurl.com

By: reyjr

reyjr — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 04:31:24 +0000

Wow! It works! Very cooool.
Thank yoU!
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By: Ching Ya

Ching Ya — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 02:51:04 +0000

Reyjr,

You can activate this option by:

Settings > General > tick the ‘Show preview info for short URLs’ > Save

Thanks so much for visiting. I’m glad you like the post. ^^

By: reyjr

reyjr — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 14:10:39 +0000

Awesome list! Very useful.
You mentioned this: b. Tweetdeck URL Preview Feature

I didn’t know this existed! I use TweetDeck. How do you activate this preview thingamajig?
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By: Ching Ya

Ching Ya — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 03:10:51 +0000

Rose,

You’re most welcome. Thank you for the regular visiting, it means a lot too. ^^

By: Rose

Rose — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 01:20:04 +0000

Thank you for the advice. This is something that I really think of. Thank you for the eye opening post.
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By: Ching Ya

Ching Ya — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 04:36:37 +0000

Sarah,

Great to know you’re applying the URL-check for unknown sources. Yes, unless it’s from someone reliable, always be cautious. Also, do lookout for weird messages as well, it may not be from the original sender sometimes.

Thanks for visiting.

By: Sarah

Sarah — Wed, 09 Sep 2009 07:26:29 +0000

I didn’t experience any click fraud case before. I love Untiny and use it everytime I check those tinyurl(s) from people I don’t really know that well. However, if the url(s) come from credible people (I follow) then I would click on it without checking.
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