Lately I’ve been using Bit.ly to shorten URLs, particularly for Twitter and Facebook updates. Before that I used Tinyurl.com, but I switched to Bit.ly because of the extra 5 characters it gave me for tweets.

But I’ve got something better now. It’s just as short as Bit.ly, but a whole lot cooler — for me, anyway:

EJS.me

So now I can do things like:

I know what you’re thinking: How can I EJS me some URLs?

Sorry, folks, but I’m the only one who can create EJS.me links.

(For those who are interested, I’m using a slightly modified version of PHPurl to run the back end.)


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