We are now responsible for making the internet over 100,000 characters shorter!

Yet another major landmark has been reached today - here's a clue:

Yup, you guessed correctly, we are now responsible for making the Internet over 100,000 characters shorter!

The short URL that tipped us over the 100k mark was:

http://fwd4.me/HU

It started life as a 199-character long URL of 'http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Sony-Playstation-3-60-GB-Black-Console-3-games_W0QQitemZ200384254557QQcmdZViewItemQQptZUK_VideoGames_VideoGameConsoles_VideoGameConsoles?hash=item2ea7d5125d&_trksid=p3286.c0.m14' and we shortened it down from 199 characters to just 17 characters, making the long URL 182 characters shorter!

It was only last month that we hit the 50k mark (http://fwd4.me/50k) which goes to prove our rapid growth in popularity and for this, we thank you!

Our 'product development' continues and we've some exciting new features on the horizon, check our blog soon for an update on those.

Finally, if you missed it the first time round, an interesting post on exactly how our URL shortening service works behind the scenes can be found at http://fwd4.me/HowItWorks

Thanks once again for helping us become responsible for making the Internet over 100,000 character shorter!