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Welcome to episode nine in the Advance Tips for Twitter Series.
If you share a lot of links in your Twitter update then you may want to think about trying a service that will allow you to keep track of what's happening with those links after you post them. Automatically, when you post a long link, Twitter will shorten it using the service tiny URL. Well, it works all right. There are other services that gave you more information.
One of those services is called bit.ly. To access it, just go to bit.ly. You could choose to sign up for an account but you don’t have too and you can also sign in with your Twitter credentials and Tweet directly from bit.ly. Let me show you how it works.
Enter in a long URL here and optionally, you can create a custom name for your URL. Click on shorten and here is my short link which I can now copy and then paste into a Twitter update. If you’re signed in to bit.ly then you can post to Twitter directly from here. Now, every time someone clicks on my link on now just go to info for the link you're tracking and I have a lot of links here and you can look at the past day, week or month. You’ll see a time frame of when people are clicking to referring sites that the clicks are coming from as well as the location of the people who are doing the clicking.
You'll also see any replies to your update that contain this link across the different social networking sites. It’s a great way to know how many people are actually interested in the links that you're sharing on Twitter.
Remember, there are 10 parts to this series so don’t forget to check out the other episodes in the Advance Tips for Twitter Series.
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