To share links on social platforms, we can shorten URLs on Android smartphones using URL Shortener: here’s how it works
If we like to share on messaging apps and social media, especially Twitter, links to sites that interest us or our thoughts on various blogs and portals, we’ll have to use a service to shorten URLs. Here’s how to do it if we own an Android smartphone.
The advice is to use an application created specifically to perform this task. One of the best ones on Android for shortening web addresses is Shortener URL. First we go to the Google Play Store and download the service. Once the process is complete we click Open to launch the app. At this point we have two choices to share a short URL, or go to the browser and copy the original URL and paste it into the app, or quickly create a random URL directly from the app.
How Shortener URL works
In the second case described we will not have any choice, or the URL will be a short combination of letters and numbers chosen at random. On the other hand, in a few seconds we will have shared our link with friends and followers. With the first option we can customize the URL. Choosing the letters and giving a minimum sense to the URL despite the short length. Shortener URL creates shortened links that are compatible with any other third-party application. Plus, the service saves every short URL we’ve created so we have a history of our shared links. There is no one technique that is better than another. Quick sharing without customization is useful if we only care about substance and need to use a few characters. Personalized sharing can give context to the reader who will understand what the story or page compressed into the link is about. And perhaps it’s recommended on social media, especially to entice users on Twitter to click on one of our articles.