TinyURL

Designing a URL Shortening service like TinyURL

how to design a url shortening service like TinyURL

Bowen She

1 minute read

URL shortening is used to create shorter aliases for long URLs. We call these shortened aliases “short links”. Users are redirected to the original URLs when they hit those short links. Short links save a lot of space when displayed, printed, messaged, tweeted. Additionally, users are less likely to mistype shorter URLs.