🆚 t.co vs. TinyURL
- 📈 t.co is noticeably more popular than TinyURL.
- 🌎 t.co is more popular in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Japan.
- 🌍 TinyURL is more popular in Indonesia, India, and Turkey.
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About
t.co is a URL shortening service used by
X to wrap links shared in posts and direct messages, helping protect users from malicious websites and phishing attacks.
The service automatically converts all shared URLs into fixed-length redirect links, checks destinations against lists of dangerous sites, displays warning pages for suspicious content, and tracks link clicks and engagement signals.
TinyURL is one of the oldest URL shortening services, operating since 2002, that generates compact redirect links for websites, emails, social media, and marketing campaigns.
The service supports custom aliases, branded domains, QR code generation, editable destinations, expiration rules, bulk link creation, and click analytics.
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Pricing
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Popularity
Determined by the number of sites using each technology.
Market share
Popularity by country
Determined by the number of sites detected from each country.
Awards
- 🥈 Second most popular in Japan in the URL Shorteners category.
- 🥉 Third most popular in the United Kingdom in the URL Shorteners category.
- 🥉 Third most popular in Thailand in the URL Shorteners category.
- 🥉 Third most popular in Canada in the URL Shorteners category.
- 🥉 Third most popular in the Netherlands in the URL Shorteners category.
- 🥉 Third most popular in India in the URL Shorteners category.
- ⭐ 4th most popular in Turkey in the URL Shorteners category.
- ⭐ 5th most popular in Indonesia in the URL Shorteners category.
- ⭐ 5th most popular in Australia in the URL Shorteners category.
- ⭐ 5th most popular in Brazil in the URL Shorteners category.
Popularity by domain category
Determined by the number of sites in each category.
Top sites
Top-ranked sites that use these technologies.
Compare alternatives
Technologies with similar characteristics.
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🗃️ About This Data
- We evaluate the popularity of technologies based on the number of websites where we detect their usage.
- Technologies without a detectable web footprint, and those we do not track, are not reflected in the calculated market share.
- This report is based on the analysis of 3,604,716 websites.
- Statistics were last calculated on .
- For more details, see our methodology and disclaimer.
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