| Website | bit.ly |
| Blog | blog.bit.ly |
| Category | Consumer Web |
| Phone | 626-839-8575 |
| Employees | |
| Description | URL shortener |
| Series A, 3/09 O'Reilly AlphaTech Ventures Mitch Kapor Roger Ehrenberg Ron Conway Joshua Stylman Peter Hershberg David Shen Social Leverage The Accelerator Group Chris Sacca FF Angel LLC | $2M |
bit.ly is a URL shortener, a web service which shrinks long URLs. Unlike early URL shorteners, bit.ly offers statistical tools to track the popularity of the shortened links. In May 2009, Twitter replaced TinyURL with bit.ly as its default link shortening tool; this move drastically increased bit.ly’s popularity.
