Cli.gs, a short url service with analytics, has released stats and analysis of 10.2 million tweets and 2 million links to see which domains are most used.
Unsurprisingly Tinyurl leads the way as the default shortening service automatically provided by Twitter.
Interestingly the data scrape being analysed contains data from 8 million users – a higher number than most people have assigned to Twitter. And from that figures comes the figure that tinyurl provides 75.09% of shortened links.
The next is is.gd with 7.67% and my own favoured choice of bit.ly in third with 4.84%.
Cli.gs itself is in a creditable 10th, with 0.35%
From all links, Twitpic is the third most popular, with blip.fm and brightkite also in the top ten.
Go and see some more interesting information at the original post on the Cli.gs blog.
And there’s a huge list of shortening services on the Microblogging Tools page.
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