Preview bit.ly Link from Twitter

Choosing Twitter as your media of promotion is nothing new these days, and believe me it sure does the job efficiently. But there are times when someone mention something in your timeline which could be vague enough, that it lure suspicions, and the only way to tell the truth is by clicking the bit.ly link that mentioned in the tweet.

Now I don’t have to tell you about the risk that can be exposed through a single click, but here I’m going to share you one FireFox Add-ons that will help you to “peek” the content of the shortened link in those tweets.

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With the bit.ly Preview Plugin for Firefox, whenever you hover over a bit.ly URL on any web page (not only Twitter, as a matter of fact), you will have a tooltip showing the Page Title, Long URL, and any Click Data available regarding the page that the URL links to.

The steps are:

1. Open your Mozilla Firefox web-browser.
2. Go to this address (https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/10297)
   

   bit.ly Preview: Add-ons for Firefox

3. Click on the “Add to Firefox” button.
   Remember that you should read the PRIVACY POLICY page, just in case.
4. If you set any pop-up protection, make sure you allow Firefox to open the installation dialog.
5. After a short count-down (about 5 secs) you should be able to click the “Install” button, and then Firefox will automatically install the add-ons.
6. Probably you’ll need to restart your Firefox after you install this add-ons. Just do so.

Okay, now try open a twitter page. And find a bit.ly link in one of the tweets. Put your mouse cursor above the link (mouse-over it, but don’t click the link).

That wraps it up, safe surf!

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