Link-shortening services such as Bit.ly have exploded in popularity in the past few years thanks to the steady growth of Twitter, Facebook and other services that limit posts to bite-sized bursts of 140 to 420 characters. Bit.ly remains a powerful link-shortening service with over 4 billion unique URLs shortened. The company also offers some standout features like stat-tracking for each link, automatic QR Code generation, some open APIs and support for popular social web technologies like OAuth.

Now that you can wrap multiple links inside a single Bit.ly URL, it becomes even easier to squeeze more info into a single tweet.

If you’re thinking that a page of links would be pretty boring, well, Bit.ly seems to have had the same thought. The company has integrated media previews of images and videos, as well as any titles, descriptions and notes you want to add to your links.

Bit.ly bundles can also function as a group collaborating tool, your friends can comment on your bundles and even build their own, based on your starting points. It makes Bit.ly a more valuable service, rather than just a middleman of necessity standing between a URL and Twitter.

This article originally appeared on Webmonkey.com, Wired’s site for all things web development, browsers, and web apps. Follow Webmonkey on Twitter.

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Authors: Scott Gilbertson

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