The Strange Boom in the Popularity of Shorter URLs

It was recently noted that bit.ly took over as the #1 “url shortening service” to twitter users, besting the oldest and most well-known of such services,  http://tinyurl.com/. Some 46% of shortened links redirect through the service.

Lately though, I keep stumbling onto more and more short URL services.

Here’s a post at Mashable that lists… get this… 90 of them.