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Wednesday, 14th April 2010

bit.ly User? Major Release Coming Soon; Company Also Shares Some Stats

In a post on the bit.ly blog we learn that version 1.3 is going to be rolled out over the next few weeks and will include, "some nifty new features," including history search. The bit.ly pro service will also see a bunch of new features. Btw, the blog post contains several screenshots.

Notes and Quotes:

+ Version 1.3: "...it takes fewer clicks to shorten and share your URLs"

+ New manage tab: ability to see and search all of the URLs you've shortened

+ Type ahead feature. "Trying to remember a link you shortened a few weeks ago? Just type a few characters into the search box and you’ll see suggestions for pages that match your search term."

+ Users will be able to use a "a public timeline view of the links they have shared — so that stream can be shared and backed up (via RSS)."

bit.ly pro users, several new features have been added along with a new enterprise version. Check the blog post heading "bit.ly Pro." A brief video is also available.
Note: Over 6,000 sign-ups for bit.ly pro in the last 90 days.

bit.ly stats

bit.ly shortens 40-50 million URLs daily. Most use bit.ly.com but others come via partners like pep.si, and n.pr.

Yesterday [Monday, April 12, 2010], was our highest traffic day ever, with over 147m clicks on bit.ly powered links. The total for March was 3,431,815,744 — up from 2.7 billion in February and 2.5 billion in January. (The corresponding number in March 2009 was 87 million, so we’re about 40 times larger now than we were a year ago)

More than 50% of our daily encodes happen outside of Twitter. Clicks to bit.ly links created on Facebook are now twice as large as those on Twitter.com — last month more than 100m bit.ly clicks went to Facebook.com.

Source: bit.ly Blog


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