Su.pr, StumbleUpon’s URL shortening service, has come out of closed beta. StumbleUpon, which was recently freed from eBay’s clutches, tossed its hat in the URL shortening ring earlier this year. We first heard about Su.pr in March when StumbleUpon CEO Garrett Camp Tweeted about it. Su.pr, like other shortening tools, lets you shorten a URL and share it across Twitter, Facebook, and StumbleUpon.
The nifty part of Su.pr’s service is that it gives you a dashboard to help you keep track of how many times your su.pr links have been shared, across which services. You can see how many times each link has been clicked on and retweeted (along with the number of followers for each retweeter). It also lets you schedule shared links across those services for any time you want.
Su.pr’s analytics are similar to those that fellow UR shortening service bit.ly provides, except that Su.pr is connected to website discovery service Stumbleupon, which gives each link an extra distribution push. Links can be voted upon by the StumbleUpon community (which the platform estimates as 8 million users), and if it becomes popular the link can become viral. For StumbleUpon, Su.pr is a way to seed the service with links people are already pushing out to their real-time streams.
Of course, the URL shortening arena is almost over saturated with services. There’s the leader of the pack, bit.ly, TinyURL, Digg’s controversial Diggbar (which helped lift unique visitors by 20 percent), Awe.sm, Un.hub, Link.by, Owl.ly, Post.ly and many more. But Su.pr’s analytics could help the service to be a serious competitor in the URL shortening wars.
Sounds good. I’ll give it a try. Thanks.
I appreciate all the URL shorteners out there, I just wouldn’t be an investor. Not sure how they make money. If they disappear, what happens to all the links?
Such a important point. These URL shorteners are like smoking. They destroy the followable web and only make us more reliant on them.
Twitter is almost definitively driving this madness, so it makes me wonder why they dont get rid of tiny urls all together and instead just do “onmousedown” JS alerts that track links that way.
I think the trick is where you’re using them. If it’s on Twitter – then it’s no big deal. I very seldom go back/can find anything more than a month old.
If people start using them for websites or more permanent things….well…they really aught to re-consider.
meh.
Su.pr lame. I tried “post to twitter” and it wants me to register. Good luck with that.
If you are interested just grab the bookmarklet that I wrote, add it to your browser and start posting to twitter with a single click.
nah, if you have the stumbleupon toolbar you do not need to register, ´coz u already have the stumbleupon account (and stumbleupon has around 7 million users!)
and yes, the bookmarklet is cool! Nice: you can highlight with your mouse the textparts you want to include in your tweet before you tweet it with the bookmarklet.
You need to register and be logged in to take advantage of the real time analytics they offer. It’s actually pretty great.
StumbleUpon has a solid infrastructure. I like that they rolled it out in phases to make sure su.pr could scale.
I like that you can post to twitter and facebook at the same time and submit to StumbleUpon with one additional click.
Does anyone know if they filter spider traffic? I generally get around 10 clicks instantly when I post.
Are they using 301s or 201s?
Yup. I’ve been using the beta for a while, and it’s really nice. They have a 301 option so that your urls are search engine friendly, and because every tweet is also submitted to stumbleupon & facebook, we’re seeing 200-400 extra visitors per post thanks to stumbleupon. I can’t see why anyone would use any other service.
And it integrates right into your blog with their Wordpress plug-in, so everything is automated.
Whtevr
xctly. fckng sht.
One drawback…. I use bit.ly for custom URL …. Don’t see it anyone else ….
tr.im
I’ve been using Su.pr for the last couple weeks (picked up a beta code a while back) and have integrated their wordpress plugin without any issues.
So far I really like the service. It interfaces very easily and smoothly with facebook/twitter and has easy to use analytics.
Switched over from Bit.ly and ow.ly and haven’t looked back once.
I’m still digging the simplicity of http://tr.im just to get links out, w/ analytics behind it.
But su.pr seems well if you have would like to promote your network.
I rate Su.pr and since I began using the service I have seen StumbleUpon become one of my highest referrals to my site!
I have been using Bit.ly only because its its widely used on Twitter (its also Twitters preferred URL shortner).
Anyway the URL of mywebsite is short as it is!
I have been using Bit.ly only because its its widely used on Twitter (its also Twitters preferred URL shortner).
Anyway the URL of my website is short as it is!
Analytics are different than those by bit.ly though. It’s nice to see who views/retweets that specific page in general, but there’s no way to separate who clicks on the link under my suggestion from all the other people clicking on the same link stumbled by other users.
Su.pr lame. I tried inserting some text and a URL and clicked on “post to twitter”. It took me to a registration page.
If you are interested grab the bookmarklet that I wrote at http://140b.us Just add it to your browser and start bookmarking like crazy.
was testing this out in private beta and didnt dig it too much. the connection with stumble upon is great, huge viral hook for links, but it made me log in so ofter and just was not as seemless as bitly so I lost interest. maybe give it a quick try again becuase I do heart StumbleUpon.
Tr.im
Link.by should be Lnk.by (http://lnk.by/).
Use This One
Yit.Me
:D
censorship at tc? what the heck happened?
don’t make the mistake to cut off your revenue stream.
you don’t get paid for positive comments. you get paid for traffic. any type of discussion drives traffic. however, a discussion without controversy is no discussion at all.
is.gd
http://lnk.by/ (not link.by)
You could also use tiny4.us
No analytics, strickly url shortening.
Folks — all this URL shortening misses a key issue for me which is security. The shortended URL obscures the original site URL. It is like getting directions but you dont know exactly where you are going or how safe it is.
I find it not good.