Citations:shorter

Blogging

 * 2006, "Sadly, No! » Shortering: not as easy as it looks", 24 Feb, Gavin M.
 * And yes, doing a “shorter” is much harder than it originally appears. You have to be witty, concise, and precise in a format that functionally can’t be more than 4 sentences,

Other sense

 * 2008, James Yeang, "4 Easy Ways to Decode a TinyURL", 23 Oct
 * TinyURL perhaps the most famous of all URL shorters, has an inbuilt feature you can turn on which puts a cookie on your browser telling it to automatically redirect you to a preview page which reveals the true source of any TinyURL link.