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For tweets, emails, and other areas where you can’t paste something like what you see below.

If you’re wondering where that leads (it’s too long to make it a clickable link easily) it leads here:

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That’s right. The world’s longest url (in theory urls can get longer, good enough for our purposes though) leads to a search for the world’s longest url.

FYI, going to the world’s longest url and then clicking on the world’s longest url and then clicking one of the results leading to the world’s longest url, then clicking on a search for the world’s longest url… will tear a hole in the Universe. That’s a proven fact we think.

There is a point we promise.

Long urls are a problem because sometimes you can’t fit them in things like tweets or even emails.

When you have this problem just go to one of the many sites like this:

http://goo.gl/

google_url_shortner2Once here you copy and paste your long url into the area that says “Please paste your long URL here” which we are pointing at. You can also make it a custom url, which we are going to do:

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Next you are going to hit the, Shorten URL button we are pointing at with a green arrow.

This will lead you to a page that tells you your tiny url was created. Woohoo!

We turned this:

http://goo.gl/SuBL

That’s a lot easier to handle and it leads to the exact same place. You can also make an account on most sites like these and customize your url so it shows your business name for example, instead of the name http://goo.gl/

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For tweets, emails, and other areas where you can’t paste something like what you see below.