We all know that Twitter is microblogging but how can we limit ourselves to use only 140 characters? At least for a blogger it becomes very tough. Bloggers are very expressive and always ready to share updates and information. If you too face problems and get frustrated when you want to tweet more than 140 characters then here are few tools which will help you to make your tweet short and post them across Twitter.
I actually found myself in this situation many times, when I’m replying to someone, and I feel more space for characters. One simple way is to add contd.. and then write new tweet. But, again it distract reading. So, it’s better to use any of these 3rd party sites, which will let you send tweets in more than 140 character limit. Also, if you add a link with your Tweet, your tweet character limit will reduce down to 120.
Websites to let you send Long Tweets on Twitter
TwitLonger
Twitlonger is an easy to use tool to share long messages on Twitter. You just need to write the text on Twitlonger website and they will post the link to Twitter. It’s really useful when you don’t want to write any post on your blog and just want to share any important information on Twitter.
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TinyPasteBin
TinyPasteBin is another Twitter tool just like Twitlonger to share long messages. It also allows you to write long messages and provide a URL link to you to post to your twitter profile. You can also format your text with user-friendly interface.
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You might find these Twitter tools useful too:
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- 5 Free Tools to AutoFollow Your Followers on Twitter
- 5 Twitter tools to Unfollow Inactive Users
TweetCompressor
TweetCompressor is bit different then both of the above tools. TweetCompressor helps you shrink the tweet you want to send rather than providing the URL and then post it to your twitter profile.
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Twonvert
Twonvert converts your tweets to SMS shorthand language and make it short. It place the capital letter at the beginning of the changed word. Like “be right back” will be changed to “Brb” and there are lots more words that can be easily shortened.
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TweetShrink
Just like Twonvert, TweetShrink also helps you to make your tweet short to 140 words. It also change few long words from the tweet and make it short like “First” to “1”, “I will be back” to “I’ll b back” etc.
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Hope you find these tools useful to short your long tweets and make it easy to share with your tweeps. If you are aware of any such tool do share with us.
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very useful tools,never heard of them before.
Try them out Jagan, they all are user-friendly and quick.
Yes manisha, really these are very useful tools
I also highly recommend – Tweet It In. It automatically adds in shorthand abbreviations, contractions, removes vowels from long words, performs unicode replacement, and shortens links ( all in Real Time). You can even connect it to your Twitter account to Tweet without having to copy + paste.
Check it out: http://tweetitin.com
Hi,
Great tools.
It would have been appreciate if you had provided actual examples of tweets.
Kindest,
Nabeel
It would be a too lengthy article …but I will surely come up with something soon. Anyways, I have tried all these tools and I can assure you that these are very easy to use.
TweetCompressor is an awesome tool. Just tried tht on out
Thanks ruchi for sharing particularly tht one
Glad you found useful Mani
Writing more the 140 characters is always good for promotion. As you will be able to describe your service, product, blog or website in more details.
Agree Tech Maish, it’s really useful when you have a to brand a product or services online and Twitter is best way to do that.
Well no point for guessing that all these sites are violating twitter term of use by extending tweets from limited 140 words with heck or software. ( Even first site mentioned here TwitLonger accept it that its a violation of term of use)
Probably guys at twitter will soon make changes in API to disable these sites functioning.
These sites ultimately beating the purpose for which twitter was created and designed.
I don’t think so Shanker, these tools just give the URL to your long messages or short the messages in SMS language. I guess there is no harm, I would rather say that its the way to use Twitter effectively.
Do you agree with me?
Nice! Now, I can submit my own URL without shorting it
Thanks for sharing
WoW ! Never heard of them ! Yes, 160 are less characters to tweet especially when we tweet links.
OOPS , its 140.
@Anup, @Price Arena
Yeah you can now easily tweet more than 140 characters
This is the first time i heard about the tools except tiny paste,Probably Tweet compressor is efficient wen compared to others.
Tweet Compressor is my favorite too Navsingh.
Some awesome tools you have listed here. I still wish that someone would hack twitter so that you could no fuss display more text. Would be so funny logging into twitter and seeing a huge wall of text for one tweet. xD
Nice suggestion
, but I guess people will start spamming a lot and we will find lots of clutter on Twiiter.
I haven’t really had the need to use more than 140 characters for my tweets, but this list can be a good resource. To me, Twitter is 140 characters, if I need to say anything by using more than 140 characters, then I ‘ll write a blog post about it (and finally tweet the blog post).
Yeah Jens, thats the best way to do. If you have more to share better to write a post on your blog so that all your readers and read it.
nice post…..thanx for sharing
Great share! not using twitter lately since lots of other work. very useful tools never hard of…
I don’t know why people would want to post long tweets, isn’t the whole idea to get what you want to say out quickly and get right to the point?
I have never clicked on a tweet that was submitted using one of those longer tweet applications. Maybe I am in the minority though.
Great collection. I did not know that I can lengthy my 140 characters. Thanks
Quite sometimes back i heard about tweet more than 140 chars, but this is awesome list of most possible tools,Thanks ruchi!…
Also you can write long Tweets without entering any other website. Tvit.Me website makes use of auto link shortening feature of twitter. So you can write your long text as a URL and Tvit.Me will decode it when someone clicks on it. Here you can get detailed information: http://www.tvit.me/manual.php