I have been wondering when a web app would come out that could combine several URLs as one. LinkBunch is like TinyURL on human growth hormones. When using Twitter or Pownce you are only able to add one link per message. What if you have several links you want to share one your favorite social media site? LinkBunch is your answer.

URL shortening services have grown in popularity as services such as Twitter have driven demand for shorter URLs (although the idea has been around for a long time).

For those not familiar with the concept, you add a URL to one of these services, and it provides you with a shortened URL you can share with friends. Some also come with bookmarklets for one click shortening.

In URL-shortening services such as TinyURL, the user is redirected directly to the target URL and that can be used maliciously to make the user visit an unintended link. With LinkBunch, this doesn’t happen, because whenever the visitor clicks on a LinkBunch link, he/she is simply presented with a page containing all the links in the bunch - there is no automatic redirection. The visitor can then decide if he/she wants to click on any of the links or simply close the window. LinkBunch is safe.

The option to ‘Open entire bunch’, which opens all links in a bunch in separate tabs or windows, is only provided for convenience and isn’t the only way to open a LinkBunch. You don’t have to use it if you’re not sure about the links!

Here is a live example of how LinkBunch works. http://linkbun.ch/29e

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