Social networking site Twitter allows you to share your thoughts online to your friends, known on Twitter as "followers." One of the easiest ways to get followers is to share your Twitter Web address ...
If you have a LinkedIn profile -- and I certainly hope you do -- you're going to want to let people know about it. You can do that easily by sharing the website address (URL) of your LinkedIn profile.
Popular social networking sites like Twitter have a character limit for user posts. Due to the popularity of Twitter, domains like TinyURL and Is.Gd -- sites that abbreviate URLs -- began to pop up.