If you are not new to Social Media, you would have notice that when it comes to advertising, most people take to social media because of the leverage of reach.
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I am on different social media platforms such as Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, etc. Being on social media has a lot of advantages and of course comes with a lot of headache too. For example, on Twitter and Facebook, I get a lot of tweets and messages asking me to check out one URL or the other.

It is a common practice in twitter for instance to shorten ones URL owing to the fact that a tweet can only accommodate 140 characters and some website/webpage URL can be annoyingly very long, hence the need to shorten them.
The Challenge is that some of these shortened URLs are genuine while most are complete spam. Clicking on the links might expose your facebook account, twitter account and even your email account to hacking. It might also be a source of malware to your computer and mobile devices. Hence the need to confirm the real URL behind the shortened one.

Here is How To know the real url behind the shortened or hidden url: http://www.chiansyplatform.com/2015/07/how-to-reveal-hidden-or-shortened-urls.html