Many people are still afraid of Clicking on hyperlinks generated by robot-generated looking link shorteners. Bit.ly among them is my favorite, the go-to shortener of twitter, and helpful for the open analytics. Here's a little "trick" you can use so your audience might not even be aware they're clicking a tracking link.
Any bit.ly link can have any subdomain. for example, I've created a short link to this blog, derekpangallo.com - as bit.ly/8ZeKQr. I can append to that anything I want and the link will still work, for example: SuperAwesomeFun.com.bit.ly/8ZeKQr links right back here.
Depending on your browser, the status bar might not even show all the way to the bit.ly part. Depending on your audience, they probably won't read the entire URL. Here's where twitter comes in.
The "Web" portion of your Bio only lists the first 10 characters of the address, then "..." to signify there's more. Check out how my page looks, with the status bar photoshopped up higher.
Now, I don't have to look like a spambot in my profile, but I can still track in real-time how many people click through to my blog from my Twitter. Now, I just need some interesting content to promote ...
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