Information about twirl.at

twirl.at is a service that compresses or shortens long URls built by Henning Stein from the atomtigerzoo design & internet services studio in Düsseldorf/Germany. A URl is a web address like http://www.todooo.com or the many others (mostly longer ones) you know and use.

Shortening these addresses is useful for e.g. emails or places where you have to use short texts. See below for more uses.

twirl.at turns a web address like:
http://maps.google.de/maps?f=q&hl=de&geocode=&q=d%C3%BCsseldorf&ie=UTF8&z=11&iwloc=addr

into a very short one:
http://twirl.at/4

The goal of twirl.at is shorting URls as best as possible for your pleasure!

Use twirl.at for shorting your URls

Do you like the idea of shortening links? Here are some examples for the best uses of twirl.at links:

• Use it in your email because long URls might get unusable in most email clients and webmailers
• Save characters when posting to services like twitter, friendfeed or other services that restrict texts
• Have easier to remember links for your favourite webpages!
• Link to a site which name or url you don't want to speak out (like in forums or blog posts)
• Send more of your text in a SMS than URl characters
• Obscure your friends with a short-as-possible link to your own site

There are many more uses for short & twirled links! Tell us some more if you like!

The use of twirl.at links in unsolicited (commercial) email or spam is strictly forbidden!
Please check the terms of service for more information.