TweetDeck is a Twitter desktop client app which includes built-in URL shortener bit.ly. It’s packed with features, and has awesome sound fx (each tweet cues a “Red October” submarine noise).
Pros: Posting, ReTweeting, Persistent Search, URL Shorten, Direct Messages, @Replies
Cons: Single Account
Good tutorial for TweetDeck.
Bit.ly: URL Shortener | #hashtag media // Jun 5, 2009 at 3:28 pm
[...] is by far the best URL shortener. Easy to use and app-integrated, eg in TweetDeck. One of the niftier features URL tracking - both personal and overall traffic to your link. As soon [...]