Thanks man. Can never be too careful on ANY platform nowadays. Fist rule of thumb: Do not EVER click on links that look fishy. a bit.ly link? Um, nooo.
Using TOR was a good idea! You're bringing me back to a few years ago where I was working on computers everyday. Actually a lot of fun. I'm glad you are helping bring this information to the community.
You can always use tools like GetLinkInfo to know where the link is redirecting you, there are some userscripts too but if you are in paranoid mode (which is the correct mode to be) I don't recommend it to you if you don't know javascript.