Longr.us Helps You Enlarge URLs Quickly

longURL shortening services such as TinyURL and bit.ly and come in handy especially when when want to share links with super long URLs on Twitter which has a limitation of only 140 characters per tweet. Although shortened URLs are really useful and of course indeed a brilliant creation, however, there are some limitations. For example, since these services create shortened URLs using a random alphabet or number, hence, it’s impossible to know where it links to or even unaware that you’ve actually been there before.

This is when Longr.us, a free URL enlarging service can help us to eliminate these serious and irritating issues. Having a similar domain name and logo as US-based toy store chain Toys “R” US, this useful tool converts a shortened URL to another long URL that contains the page’s domain name and title. To start, simply copy a URL from the source and paste it into the form. Then, it’ll expands it. Also, http://longr.us/books.slashdot.org/collective-intelligence-in-action is much more useful to your friends than http://books.slashdot.org/books/09/02/18/1423251.shtml if you want to share that page.

Of course, it’s impossible to share these long URLs on micro-blogging platform Twitter and after inserting in the link, I bet you would have any space left for your message. Longr.us runs on Google App Engine and uses jQuery. There are actually quite a number of alternatives to Longr.us and one of them is the popular Firefox extension Long URL Please.