Bit.ly, Tweetdeck and TwitterTools. Oh MY!

Yesterday I was shortening a batch of links with Bit.ly. As I was logged in I came across the claim of using the Bit.ly API Key to collect your history from Tweetdeck. I was excited so I pulled up Tweetdeck and scoured the settings, when I realized that I didn’t find any Bit.ly settings. So I looked at my version and compared to the newest version of Tweetdeck and saw I needed to upgrade. My was I surprised after the update was completed. There was better Facebook integrations, and the most visual was the drag n drop of photos and links.

Back at to the Bit.ly integration. I copied my API key from Bit.ly and activated it in Tweetdeck. The system works seemlessly. I can now go into my Bit.ly account to see the link history for the links I am tracking.

This little exercise reminded me that my blog wasn’t posting the links to twitter in the normal Bit.ly style. So I went in to check it out. I opened up my Wordpress site and took a look at my Twitter Tools plugin and I noticed that I had activated a new Twitter Tools plugin that was installed at my last Twitter Tools upgrade. So I took a look at the settings. Sure enough there was now a place to add my Bit.ly API key. So I am pretty stoked about the link tracking possibilities that Bit.ly now presents.

I look forward to checking it out and confirming that my wife and her friends are the only people who read my posts.

Go check out the Bit.ly and let me know how you use/might use it.