Sylleptic

This morning’s fascinating fact is about the bit.ly URL shortening service:

If you have a bit.ly link, for example http://bit.ly/4dWnCu

you can insert ‘info’ into the URL thus:

http://bit.ly/info/4dWnCu

to get all sorts of facts and figures, like how many clicks that link has had, which sites are referring using it, who’s tweeting about that particular URL, and that kind of thing.