With the huge popularity of Twitter and its 140 character limit, the fact that url shortening services also grow exponentially in the same time. Although the existence of this kind of url shortening services has once sparked a debate in the tech community, but the usefulness of making lengthy links become more shareable are actual good in someway for the Web.
In the past, some have doubt that if we aren’t careful in occasion, we might end up clicking the wrong link which redirect us to bogus sites and pick up malware along the way. Perhaps, you’ve heard of the best defense to avoid clicking the links from the unknown users (assuming you want to read an article), please check where the link will take you to.
Now, there’s a new Web service which allows you to check the link, especially for the shortened link, where it will go from here. LongURL, as the name suggests, will expand the URL link and shows you the detail of its redirect. In this way, it actually safeguard and keep you awake before the clicking of wrong link taking in place. For some instances, if you aren’t 100% sure whether or not you want to click the link, you can copy and paste the shortened link on LongURL and take a closer look after the expanding since LongURL also reveals the conversations, if any that surrounding that URL, in addition to the meta tag of that particular redirect.
