Filed under greasemonkey, shortened urls, Twitter, How To on February 20, 2010

How to Uncover the Original URL Behind Shortened URLs on Twitter

  
  


Sometimes Shortened URLs on Twitter leads to the spam sites or not-suitable-for-work (NSFW) sites, to avoid this problem you can use a greasemonkey script which on hovering the cursor upon the shortened link  shows the original source at the status bar.

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First install Greasemonkey for Firefox extension, and then install this script.

[via dailybloggr]

Article by Namit Gupta

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2 Responses to “How to Uncover the Original URL Behind Shortened URLs on Twitter”

  1. Mad Geek @beingPC 07. Mar, 2010 at 7:43 PM #

    Wow that was a nice little trick. Might come in handy

    Reply
    • Namit Gupta 08. Mar, 2010 at 2:16 AM #

      Thanks for commenting, Welcome to Theitechblog :)

      Reply

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