ONE MILLION CHARACTERS!!!

That's it!

We've done it!!

We are now officially:

Wow.

As we're sure you're all wondering, the magical link that took us over the 1,000,00 mark was:

http://fwd4.me/2yr

It started life as a 51-character long URL of 'http://codex.wordpress.org/Resetting_Your_Password' and we shortened it to just http://fwd4.me/2yr - a mere 18 characters short, a saving of 33 characters!

The 1,000,000 character URL was posted on Twitter earlier today by ^Alicia of @GoDaddy - part of the support team for the fantastic Go Daddy domain name registrar.

Most of the URLs created on our web site are used on the popular micro-blogging service, Twitter. A simple search for 'fwd4.me' on Twitter reveals quite literally thousands of our short URLs in action.

We're also great fans and avid users of Twitter ourselves. Be sure to follow our official blog @Fwd4Me - You can also follow the creators of @Fwd4Me which are @RichKavanagh and @ScottyStevens

As mentioned in a previous post, the take off in popularity of our web site has just been amazing. In less than just 32 weeks we've gone from being responsible for making the Internet zero characters shorter to being responsible for making the Internet over a million characters shorter. Amazing...

Here's a brief look back at our (somewhat meteoric) journey so far:

1st May - http://Fwd4.Me web site launches

13th May - Automated cookie-based logins

24th May - Create your own Custom URLs

28th May - API launched

6th June - Preview functions for short URLs launched

7th June - Responsible for making the Internet 10,000 characters shorter

5th August - Major code overhaul unlocks 1chr short URLs

18th August - Responsible for making the Internet 50,000 characters shorter

23rd August - Spam prevention, already shortened URLs now blocked

23rd August - Detailed statistics on your short URLs launched (busy day!)

7th September - Short URLs - How do they work? (great article!)

15th September - Responsible for making the Internet 100,000 characters shorter

29th September - Ability to shorten URLs up to 2,000 chrs long

14th October - Responsible for making the Internet 250,000 characters shorter

Which brings us to present day...

And if you think it's all gone quiet in terms of development over the last few weeks, think again!

We've been busy coding a brand new service, check out the next blog post for more details...

Can we just take this opportunity to thank you once again for using our service so much and making us the fastest growing URL shortening web site in the world. We are genuinely grateful.

Don't forget, if you're wondering how all this url shortening stuff works, be sure to check out our detailed explanation at http://fwd4.me/HowItWorks