There are tons and tons and tons of URL shortening services. A lot of these seemed to magically surface around the time of twitter’s popularity grew as people struggled to keep their tweets under 140 characters.

One of the more popular is tinyurl that twitter uses to automatically shrink down your long URL’s into cute little tiny chunks. That’s all well and good.. but what if you want to see stats and statistics of click through? Or even where someone is clicking your URL from.

For me and a lot of others, we all syndicate our tweets out to say Facebook, Friendfeed and any number of other services that will allow you to import your updates from twitter. If you’ve ever wondered who’s clicking from where.. bit.ly is your answer!

I tested out bit.ly with a simple test twitter to my blog to see how it worked. As you can see, the above is breakdown of who clicked from where. Perhaps you were even one of those clicks :)

Another cool feature is a little graph with realtime tracking of how many people clicked when.

It’s pretty simple to use and you can even tweet directly from bit.ly by syncing up your twitter account to it. There is also a toolbar shortcut to quickly shorten any website you’re on and will take you right back to bit.ly to tweet or share the new link.

Let me know what you think of bit.ly! It’s pretty fun.. and their little logo is way too cute!