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
Nice tut, you can also use tinyurl
Thanks for the share. This may help us.
…..Great information. Thank you.
Thanks, Guy.
That’s very useful. Thanks Guy.
You can also use nutshell.com for shorten links. Great tips.
useful information.
Thanks for the helpful information.
useful share..thanks for the tips
Should be worth checking out. Tell me, is Twitter among your top ten referring sites.
Nice share.
Thanks for that
That’s a very useful tip, Guy. Thank you.
Interesting topic. Thanks for sharing.
Me too have same way with you
very helpful info,thanks much Guy Hogan
Good tip to know for all those using twitter to promote their articles.
Jimmy, for some reason it does not show up on my dashboard.
Jimmy, the thing is when I tweet links that never get hits they start getting hits. Go figure.
i prefer to use TINYURL
thanks for that
Frank
Thanks Guy for this useful info.
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.
ohhhh nice post…important for me…thanks
very nice i do not use twitter to socialize actually..I used it to promote my article so it could be work to me
good info soldier!
bit.ly is also a good one to use. Thanks for the tip!
Thanks