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Meet Brian Eoff, our Lead Scientist. 14 Aug 2013 | 10:16 pm
Bitly has a lot of data, and our science team is on the front-lines working to make sense of this information and help answer questions about how we use the social web. This month’s employee profile h...
Connect bitly to your favorite online tools! 1 Aug 2013 | 12:41 am
We’re very proud that over the years the Bitly APIs have been used in hundreds of different web applications from Buffer to WordPress. Connecting your Bitly account to other 3rd party platforms gives...
Bitly Announces Mark Josephson as CEO 30 Jul 2013 | 09:10 pm
We are delighted to announce that Mark Josephson will be taking over as Bitly CEO. Mark is a preeminent startup executive with a proven track record of building great teams and great products. Mark.....
Meet our summer interns! 19 Jul 2013 | 09:56 pm
We’re lucky to have a great team of interns joining us for the summer. Hailing from schools all over the country - or even outside of it - they’re helping us out with everything from engineering proje...
Highlight your online work with bitly 17 Jul 2013 | 10:09 pm
The internet is a powerful tool to share almost anything, this includes sharing your achievements. Whether you’re a writer or a contractor, there are hundreds of different tools to display your work o...
Simple OAuth Code Examples for the bitly API 11 Jul 2013 | 07:29 pm
We here at bitly want to make using our API as easy as possible but we know that OAuth is a bit of a conundrum. It’s a great idea for user authentication overall but it can be an enormous pain to imp...
Introducing the new bitly plugin for WordPress! 9 Jul 2013 | 10:36 pm
We are excited to share our new WordPress plugin for self-hosted WordPress blogs. You can download it on our tools page here. The plugin allows you to automatically create a bitly link for each new p...
Track your own stats: save links while signed in 1 Jul 2013 | 10:24 pm
Sometimes, the most interesting data is closest to home: what’s happening with the specific bitly links that you are sharing? Good news! You can gather information all about your own bitly links - ju...
A chat with Bitlyopath, the winners of the bitly hackathon! 27 Jun 2013 | 10:13 pm
A few weekends ago we ‘Hacked to the Future’ during a one-day hackathon at bitly HQ, hosted by bitly and Sociocast. After several hours hacking away at the Sociocast and bitly APIs, the Winner of Bes...
Tell us what you think for a chance to win cool bitly swag! 20 Jun 2013 | 08:52 pm
We love feedback at bitly. We’re always interested in learning more about how users like you use our product, what features you’re most excited about and what we can do to improve bitly in the future....