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Tiny URLs as backlinks?

Not sure how to title this? Not sure if this subject has been beaten to death... although I can find little about it on the sub.

Anyway, I've been scanning competitor links with UbberSuggest and aHREF and notice tiny url links come up as legit back links. I try to scan those tiny urls to see other pages that link those specific links and see nothing. I'm assuming the bots are just scanning the profile pages which lists generated tiny urls by a specific user.

Are these legit backlinks? They seem like an effortless link but the linking reports show a 90+ domain authority with these links, 50+ page authority. I would assume if somebody created these links and plastered them across the internet, I would spot them somewhere but I don't. I see no effort made at all, just generated tiny urls that UbberSuggest and others see as valuable link.

Is creating a tiny url a simple way to gain a backlink? I'm just asking. Not even suggesting it's a good SEO practice but I'm amazed and curious.

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