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- noun Plural form of
shortener .
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Examples
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If you're one of them, Pingdom'sranking of the fastest "open" URL shorteners is not to be missed.
7 Fastest URL Shorteners Ranked By Pingdom (PICTURES) The Huffington Post 2010
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No one wanted to deal with the paperwork that resulted, Cheney said, so he and his colleagues found a solution: putting "shorteners" on the wire -- that is, cutting it into short pieces and tossing the leftovers at the end of the workday.
Bush unchastened: business as usual at the White House Nancy Jane Moore 2006
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The White House would put "shorteners" on any legislative restrictions, Cheney said, and thus stop Congress from getting in its way.
Archive 2006-11-19 Nancy Jane Moore 2006
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No one wanted to deal with the paperwork that resulted, Cheney said, so he and his colleagues found a solution: putting "shorteners" on the wire -- that is, cutting it into short pieces and tossing the leftovers at the end of the workday.
Archive 2006-11-19 Nancy Jane Moore 2006
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The White House would put "shorteners" on any legislative restrictions, Cheney said, and thus stop Congress from getting in its way.
Bush unchastened: business as usual at the White House Nancy Jane Moore 2006
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The concept amounts to censorship and makes. ly domains untenable to be used for user-generated content or url shorteners.
.Ly Domains At Risk As Libyan Government Shuts Down Site Without Warning The Huffington Post 2010
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I have a feeling this general issue (whether focused on URL shorteners or sanitized, dumbed-down, closed interfaces) will become a much bigger deal in the next decade.
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The reason these URL-shorteners are getting popular is because of limited space — 140 characters — on microblogging services such as Twitter.
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The best tweeters can do is embrace URL shorteners like bit. ly to drive traffic to YouTube, Flickr and other sites.
David All: Six Things You Need to Know About the New Twitter David All 2010
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The concept amounts to censorship and makes. ly domains untenable to be used for user-generated content or url shorteners.
.Ly Domains At Risk As Libyan Government Shuts Down Site Without Warning The Huffington Post 2010
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