While tweeting on Twitter, I stumbled across this little trick.
Hell hello hello, my brother and sister bloggers and writers. The Old Soldier has been blogging away at his blog and streaming away on Twitter.
A funny thing happened while I was tweeting.
See, since you are allowed only 140 characters a tweet you have to save as much room as possible. And if you want to add a URL, a link, to your tweet you end up with even less room for your message. After all, Twitter is really for sending messages.
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Sometimes when I tweet I like to put in a link to a piece of content in my Triond account. I actually have a list of about 60 different links from Triond that I tweet during the day. For a while I was tweeting a link to my eBook and to my blog.
Of course I’m not the only person on Twitter who does this; but I noticed that some people had links a lot shorter than mine. Then I noticed that when I blogged and Tweeter automatically picked up what I blogged the link was shorter than if I wrote the link out myself.
Well, to make a long story short I found out that there are several sites that will shorten a link for you. I use http://goo.gl
That’s it. Check it out. It’s real simple to use.
This is the Old Soldier reporting.
My eBook is The Pittsburgh Stories
April 5th, 2011 at 7:46 pm
Nice tut, you can also use tinyurl
April 5th, 2011 at 8:11 pm
Thanks for the share. This may help us.
April 5th, 2011 at 8:12 pm
…..Great information. Thank you.
April 5th, 2011 at 8:35 pm
Thanks, Guy.
April 5th, 2011 at 8:56 pm
That’s very useful. Thanks Guy.
April 5th, 2011 at 9:08 pm
You can also use nutshell.com for shorten links. Great tips.
April 5th, 2011 at 10:23 pm
useful information.
April 5th, 2011 at 10:28 pm
April 5th, 2011 at 10:56 pm
Thanks for the helpful information.
April 5th, 2011 at 11:33 pm
useful share..thanks for the tips
April 6th, 2011 at 12:35 am
Should be worth checking out. Tell me, is Twitter among your top ten referring sites.
April 6th, 2011 at 12:51 am
Nice share.
April 6th, 2011 at 2:54 am
Thanks for that
April 6th, 2011 at 3:16 am
That’s a very useful tip, Guy. Thank you.
April 6th, 2011 at 3:43 am
Interesting topic. Thanks for sharing.
April 6th, 2011 at 3:54 am
Me too have same way with you
April 6th, 2011 at 4:24 am
very helpful info,thanks much Guy Hogan
April 6th, 2011 at 6:00 am
Good tip to know for all those using twitter to promote their articles.
April 6th, 2011 at 7:37 am
Jimmy, for some reason it does not show up on my dashboard.
April 6th, 2011 at 7:58 am
Jimmy, the thing is when I tweet links that never get hits they start getting hits. Go figure.
April 6th, 2011 at 9:45 am
i prefer to use TINYURL
April 6th, 2011 at 9:49 am
thanks for that
Frank
April 6th, 2011 at 11:16 am
Thanks Guy for this useful info.
April 6th, 2011 at 11:47 am
I salute you for your sage advice regarding Twitter and URL’s. Actually, the information you gave is helpful to all of us who Twitter.
April 6th, 2011 at 8:29 pm
ohhhh nice post…important for me…thanks
April 6th, 2011 at 11:41 pm
very nice i do not use twitter to socialize actually..I used it to promote my article so it could be work to me
April 7th, 2011 at 11:07 am
good info soldier!
April 9th, 2011 at 4:43 am
bit.ly is also a good one to use. Thanks for the tip!
April 9th, 2011 at 6:52 am
Thanks