13 Sep

Twitter and Increasing its 140 Characters Limit

On Twitter:Twitter is one of the social networking sites, which is also quite popular. Though Facebook still leads with more than millions of people having their profiles on the social media site, twitter is also following it closely behind. Twitter is a microblogging site and it allows people to write anything and everything, within 140 characters. It all started back in March 2006, by Jack Dorsey and by the following few months, within July, the site was launched. As of now, the social networking site has more than 500 million ofTwitter users who have their registered profiles on the site. There are more than 340 million or tweets on this site every day and it is counted among the ten most important and popular website on the World Wide Web. It is in fact sort of a messaging (SMS) site on the internet, just like we do it on our mobile. The ones who haven’t registered too, can read the tweets and know of the events that are generally announced through the tweets. Twitter, as most of us know, has become a common site for the celebs. Right from the actors, singers, directors, all have their accounts on Twitter. It has gained worldwide recognition and popularity which is why, you get to know what is going on around the globe in short and from the views of different persons (most of them being eminent).

The problem: However, it is also difficult at times to express what you want on Twitter due to the limit of 140 characters. Often businesses find it difficult to share anything especially a URL or a link on this site. One thing that can be done, is to make the link short. There are various tools for this purpose and you can easily use these URL shortening tools for your purpose. There are also certain websites that help you in tweeting more than 140 characters and this can be used when you need to say something that occupies more than the 140 characters space.

Twitter Long-tweets.com:You can tweet beyond 140 characters on this site. It will actually transform the long tweets into images and publish on Twitter. As you know images can be displayed on Twitter, therefore your followers can read it on Twitter.

Twishort.com:This is yet another site which helps you when you find that the 140 characters space and limit on Twitter isn’t enough and long to have a bit of more space for better expression about your business.

Talltweets.com:This was developed by Amit Agarwal who works in Digital Inspiration. If you have long URLs then simply use this site and write what you want to along with the URL on your Twitter account. You will see that the URL has been automatically shortened.

Twitlonger.com: This also helps you with the same issue. You need to log into your Twitter account and then use this. You can easily post more than 140 characters any time.