All Wordpress.com blog owners will be pleased to know you can now share a very very short URL to each of your posts.WordPress has launched the WP.me short URL, designed for linking to your blog post. What that means is instead of providing the long version of links to your site and its posts you can now use this free shortened version. Not only does this look nicer, but it makes using services like Twitter simpler due to its restrictions on the number of characters one can post. It isn’t a general purpose URL shortener or rival to Bit.ly: it’s just for those on WordPress.com.

Original
http://en.blog.wordpress.com/2009/08/14/shorten/

Shortend Version
http://wp.me/sf2B5-shorten

• WP.me is the only two-letter .me domain in the world.
• Every blog and post on WordPress.com has a WP.me URL now.
• These are all exposed in the using rel=shortlink.
• It doesn’t work for any URL in the world, just WP.com-hosted ones.
• The links are permanent; they will work as long as WordPress.com is around.
• WP.me is spam-free, because we are constantly monitoring and removing spam from WP.com.

Using these shortlinks has been made very easy. Every time you write a post a “Get Shortlink” button appears next to the generated permalink. Shortlinks for existing posts can also be found under the Blog Info admin menu.