If you will notice that their some situations you need to shorten a very long URL (Uniform Resource Locator) especially if you are into affiliate marketing, usually, links are likely to be reduced to about 20 characters before sending it out. So today we will discuss how to do this on your BlackBerry smartphone.
For this to be possible on our BlackBerry, we need an application known as “Social Feeds”. This application comes with blackberry with higher Operating System (OS), meaning it is not possible on all blackberry phones. So you can take a second look at the applications on your BlackBerry to see if you can find it, if you don’t have it because your OS is not up to date, you can check to see how to upgrade yourBlackBerry OS if your Blackberry model fall under the list of blackberry that can be upgraded to OS 7.1.
Steps to shorten long Links
- Locate and lunch “Social Feeds” application on your BlackBerry
- When it opens, press the BlackBerry Logo button on your phone and select new post
- Copy the link you want to shorten and paste it under “Post” and as you click on paste, you will be asked if you want to shorten the link(s), just click yes, you will also be asked if you want to replace the long link with the shortened link, if you choose yes, your long link will be shortened and pasted.
- Now you can either highlight the shortened link, copy and paste it where it is needed or you can simply click on “post” and the shortened link will be posted to the social networks selected under the “Post to” column of the “Social Feeds” application
