Twitter Tips and Tricks – Becoming an Instant Hit on Twitter

One very simple thing to become is a Twitter pest.

This is a person who explodes out tweets that have nothing to do with their profiles, constantly begs people to follow them in their tweets and or messages, as well as that who keeps spamming the same links.

When it comes to Twitter, be the best, not a pest. The worst thing to be doing on Twitter is begging people, for instance, to follow you, liking a re-tweet or even liking a follow, since these make you look like having limited brain or mental capacity on top of looking desperate. Someone may think begging people to follow you on twitter will or may get you suspended.

How to get more Twitter followers

Well, it may not. But the bad news is that it labels you as a ‘pest’ among the other twitter users. This actually results in some people having to stop following you on Twitter. To be a winner on Twitter, you simply follow people you think or feel might be interested in you and your thoughts hoping that they will do the same for you – follow you back – for the vital thing on Twitter is not getting immediate followers; rather, more people will naturally follow you over time as other people start to know and follow you.

When you post relevant tweets on Twitter regularly, people will naturally start following you. You have to keep them interested in your posts before they start thinking that you are a pest. If your profile is related to new car models, your followers might grumble if you start making posts about high heel shoes or something else not related to new car models.

The only way to become this is to maintain the skill of coming up with unique content in each and every tweet. Proper usage of the services provided by Google Alerts, Hellotxt.com and Twitterfeed.com helps keep your name clean and distanced from the pest tag. If you don’t have many different pages to post, there are various URL shortening tools that can be used to change the links of these pages. These tools enable you to make numerous and different links that automatically point to the same page.

At this point, you should be having some concrete knowledge regarding the major things that are to be considered when it comes to becoming the best on Twitter and not a pest. In addition, by now you know some of the tools that have been developed to aid in the creation of status updates and posting them.

Bottom line

With these tools, hopefully, you can become one of the best on Twitter and realize the constant success this app can bring to your business or brand; otherwise, people on Twitter will label you a Twitter pest and once you get this label, it is almost impossible to get rid of it. In addition, if more than enough people report you to Twitter due to your ‘pest’ behavior, Twitter reserves the rights to suspend your account.

All in all, you should use the best twitter tools presented to you to avoid becoming a Twitter pest and become a Twitter best.

-  ordoh

4 Recent Twitter Updates You Should Know About (If You Don’t Already)

Twitter has been one busy little bird this spring. While Twitter updates are not uncommon, it’s worth noting that this month alone, everyone’s favourite micro blogging platform has released four significant updates to various feature sets. Do you know what they are?

If not, here’s what’s new, and why you should take note: 

1. Retweet With Comments

We’re starting with this one because, well, it’s the one we’re most excited about. For years, Twitter users have been working around the inexplicable inability to ‘quote’ tweets on the desktop the same way they could from their mobile devices. On mobile, we have had the choice between retweeting directly (sending someone else’s tweet out to your own users) and tweet quoting (adding your own comments to a tweet’s content). From the desktop, however, the only option was to directly retweet, or copy and paste the content into a new tweet to add your spin. Since nobody has time for that, the release of the new Retweet with Comments feature is a welcome change.

Why this matters: The new interface, which has been rolled out to both mobile and desktop experiences, allows users to choose to add a comment that will show up outside of the original tweet. The best part? Users no longer have to cleverly truncate the original tweet in order to add their own thoughts!

2. New Logged-Out Homepage

For the longest time, if you were to arrive at Twitter’s homepage and not be automatically logged in, you would just see a screen encouraging you to sign up or sign in (with some pretty pictures in the background and some scrolling tweets).The new homepage really drives home the volume and variety of content available on Twitter, and makes a much more compelling case for joining, or becoming active again if you’ve left the flock (bird puns!).

Why this matters: While it might not seem like there is an obvious benefit for social media marketers here, there is. The more engaged, content-hungry users Twitter can acquire, the more people there will be to engage with your own content there.

3. Direct Message Without Following

This new feature really straddles the line between good and bad. Previously, if a user wanted to send a direct message to another user or to a brand, they had to be following that user AND have that user follow them back. This prevented brands and users alike from being flooded with messages that may or may not have been pleasant. Of course, not everyone who wanted to send a direct message instead of a public tweet had bad intentions, but that was certainly not uncommon. In the new direct message paradigm, however, anyone can DM anyone IF that user’s privacy settings allow for it. Yes, Twitter anticipated the panic around opening up DMs and made this a feature than can be turned on or off in the settings menu.

Why this matters: As a social marketer, you might be hesitant to turn this on, and we don’t blame you. But think about this; if an unhappy customer wants to send you a complaint, wouldn’t you prefer they have the option to do so privately instead of broadcasting it to all of their followers? Now, if that answer seems too cynical to you, then just think about how much more engaging and personal your interactions with happy customers can be when they occur in this one-on-one environment.

4. Abuse Policy Update

This one is hot off the presses, folks. Today, Twitter announced that they have updated their policies regarding abusive behavior in order to better protect their users. Without getting into specifics (a quick Google search can do that for you), Twitter has often been used by trolls to harass individuals in some pretty disheartening ways. Much of this is directed at women (though not all), and often features threatening language or calls for others to cause harm. While there has been a lot of pressure on Twitter to better protect users by punishing abusers, Twitter has struggled to find the right way to balance user experience with questions of free speech.

The new policy announced today updates the previous policy (which Twitter’s director of product management called “unduly narrow”) to include not only direct and specific threats, but also “threats of violence against others or promot[ing] violence against others.” There will also be updates on the customer support side that give Twitter more options for how to deal with abusive users (see below)

Why this matters: This step in the right direct is good not only for individuals, but also for brands that benefit from more people feeling safe to join and interact on Twitter. Additionally, if users have or hear about negative experiences on Twitter repeatedly, they could start to have negative feelings around the platform as a whole. And if your brand has a strong presence on Twitter, some of that negativity could become linked with your brand in the users mind.

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8 Hidden Facebook and Twitter Tricks You Never Knew (or Forgot Long Ago)

1. Facebook: Save Link

This one comes first because you don’t have time not to know about it. The ability to save Facebook articles was pretty well publicized, but a lot of people forget about it because it’s buried in a menu. I don’t know about you, but nothing frustrates me more than seeing an article on Facebook, trying to find it later, and never seeing it again…because algorithms. Here’s how you can combat this:

2. Twitter: Save by Favoriting

There are ways to curate tweets into reading lists using custom timelines and other more official means, but my favorite way to save things I see on Twitter for later consumption is just to give ‘em a favorite. It’s just one tap, it builds relationships with other users, and it enhances your own profile. All of the tweets you’ve favorited are collected on your Twitter profile page, just under your cover image, where you (and anyone else) can browse through them when you have time.

3. Facebook: Edit Photos on Mobile

This is one of those things that if you never read about, or accidentally did it by mistake, you might never know about it. Say you are live-posting for your business about an event you’re attending, and you want to share some photos. You don’t have time to open them up in your favorite editing app, save them, and then share them. But, you still want them (and you!) to look as good as possible. Just tap to share a photo on Facebook, select the image you want from your camera roll, and then tap that image within the status draft you’ve created on Facebook. This will bring up a full editing interface where you can add filters, do quick adjustments, tag people, and crop, right there in Facebook.

4. Twitter: Find Out Who Unfollowed You

Creepy? Maybe. Useful? Definitely. If you tweet for your business, you probably already use Twitter Analytics to optimize your strategy based on the engagement of the people who follow you. But what about the people you unfollow you? By finding out who chooses not to hear from you anymore (with a tool like who.unfollowed.me), you can determine if your current strategy is alienating the people you want to reach, and adjust accordingly.

5. Facebook: Follow Without Friending

Before you get too excited, be aware that not everyone will have this feature enabled on their profile. That said, if they do, it’s pretty darn useful. Is there a public figure you’d like to hear from in your news feed, but don’t want to send a friend request to? You can! For example, we had the chance to interact with Forbes Top 10 Social Media Influencer Kim Garst (hi Kim!) during the recent Social Media Marketing World conference. And while it was great to tweet with her, I wouldn’t feel comfortable sending her a friend request on Facebook (because I’m a stranger, and that’s creepy). However, Kim has her profile set up such that people can follow her public posts without friending her first. If you’d like to enable this for yourself, learn how here.

6. Twitter: Mute Feature

We discussed this when it first came out, but Twitter’s mute feature bears revisiting. If you have someone in your Twitter feed who you want to remain engaged with, but find their content irrelevant or irritating, Twitter mute is for you. Or, in a less extreme example, maybe someone you know is attending an event and is kind enough to issue a volume alert letting followers know that they’ll be posting a lot on a certain topic for the next few days. If that topic doesn’t interest you, you can mute them while the event is going on, and then unmute them when their feed goes back to normal.

7. Facebook: Interests Lists

If you use Facebook for both business and pleasure, this will be of particular interest. Sometimes when you’re browsing your news feed for great content to share or learn from, it’s easy to lose an hour due to all the other unrelated items you encounter. Combat this with Facebook’s Interests Lists. From your Home screen on Facebook, scroll down the left-hand navigation until you see the header INTERESTS. Click that, and you’ll be taken to a page where you can create new lists that will serve as custom-curated news feeds for your browsing pleasure.

8. Facebook: English (Pirate)

In honor of #TBT today, we’re taking it back to 2008 when people first began to discover that they could set their language on Facebook to English (Pirate). This probably falls under the category of ‘long forgotten’ because it has no practical application. But if you want to have a laugh today and experience a blast from the past, click the drop down menu in the top right corner of your Facebook window, click Settings, and edit your language setting to English (Pirate). When you get sick of this (and you will), just repeat the process to change back to your original language. Important note: when you return to the drop down menu, Settings will now be called Adjust ye riggin’s.

We hope you find these tips and tricks for Facebook and Twitter helpful and/or entertaining. If you have any favourite hidden features for other social networks, please share them in the comments!

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Twitter will become even more integrated with iOS and OS X

In future versions of iOS and OS X, you will probably see more tweets than ever before. According a report from 9to5Mac, Twitter and Apple are working together to inject tweets into the Spotlight feature on iPhones, iPads, iPod touches, and Macs.

The news came out during Twitter’s most recent quarterly earnings call. A transcript of the call has Twitter CEO Dick Costolo commenting on the further integration of the social media service with iOS and OS X.

And finally, we are also working with Apple to surface great Twitter content and accounts directly in Spotlight Search on iOS and OS X, that also makes it easier and quicker to find great things on Twitter. So I would sum up by saying, there is absolutely an opportunity to go and monetize that attention and traffic. We want to make sure we iterate on the experiences to get them right first.

You can already use Spotlight on iOS and OS X to search for particular hashtags, but it sounds like there might be even more Twitter content coming to the onboard search platform. Apple has continually improved Spotlight’s ability to be a critical aspect of the Apple device experience, adding Bing Search and Wikipedia integration to help users find informative content straight from the operating system.

Apple began adding integration with Twitter in 2011, when iOS 5 released with built-in support for the social media platform. When Mountain Lion released in 2012, users found integrated Twitter support on the desktop.

Costolo hasn’t revealed when the Twitter Spotlight integration would appear, but it is possible that Apple will discuss Spotlight improvements at WWDC in June, when the company is expected to unveil iOS 9 and OS X 10.11.

-  appadvice

Wait for it... iPhone slooooow-mo videos come to Twitter

Twitter is soon to become the place to share those videos of your pets trying to catch food or those high-frame rate shots of your friends falling over flat on their face.

The social network now allows those with slow-motion videos taken on an iPhone to be embedded directly into your feed.

It's about time there was an easy way to share these slow-mo bits of comedy gold as many social networks and websites still refuse to support the feature, despite it being introduced on the iPhone 6 back in 2014.

Head on over to Twitter now and you'll be able to directly share your slooooooow-mooooo vids to the site with no need for an update.

Whether you have an iPhone or not, prepare for your feed to be taken over by high-speed footage of dogs faces wobbling for at least the next couple of days. Enjoy!

-   techradar

Twitter launches new search, filtering tool 'Curator' for media organizations

Twitter is launching a new product for media organizations, publishers, and broadcasters called Curator, that lets them identify, filter and display tweets and Vine videos on any screen in real-time.

According to TechCrunch, Curator offers a variety of filtering tools that let publishers and broadcasters create either simple or highly complex queries that can help them drill down on specific content or current trends.Curator will make integrating tweets and other content into media organizations TV newscasts, programs, websites or mobile apps quicker and easier. This will make better sense of the barrage of data on Twitter's network in order to highlight the best content for their own readers and viewers.

Companies can find and filter these tweets by a range of factors, including keywords, authors, location, language, time zone, follower count, number of re-tweets or favorites, verified users and much more.

Curator has the ability to search through Twitter's video network Vine for relevant videos and it can pull up popular live-streamed Periscope videos by using the filters combined with the appropriate keyword.

Curator is a free product with no plans to include premium features or integrate advertising. It is more about helping impact Twitter's bottom line by helping the company's tweets be shown to a larger audience.

-  zeenews

Twitter: Tips & Tricks

Twitter, the most popular micro-blogging site on the internet, has several billions of users. It is also called “the SMS of the internet”. I believe everyone reading this article right now, has (at least) one Twitter account to tweet their thoughts out to their followers. But as always, we are here with a bag of tips and tricks so that you can play with your account like never before and optimize your experience in the Twittersphere.

Advance Search Operators-

It is one of the most powerful features that Twitter has but a lot of users do not know about it. It is located at the top of the screen. The advance operators allow you to do the following things:

•  If you want to search tweets with links in them, write find “tipsntricksdailyfilter:links”, what it will do is that it will search for all tweets containing tipsntricksdaily with a link in the post
• You can also search for things near your place by search near:”yourplace”.
• Put : ) symbol in the search along with the topic to find the positive tweets about the topic and : ( for the opposite.
• Use ‘until:YYYY-MM-DD’ to find tweets until that day.
• Twitter also provides you with an option to save your search result by clicking “save” on the right side, so later on you can find it under “Searches” tabs.

 Multiple Twitter Accounts with One Email Account-

You can create multiple Twitter accounts using one email account only. This feature is very useful for those users who have more than one company and website/blog. Here is the trick, when you create a second Twitter account using same email account, just add ‘+’ and a word after the first part of the email address, i.e, if original email address is tipsntricksdaily@gmail.com, to create second Twitter account with it, just write tipsntricksdaily+newword@gmail.com. This feature is fully supported by Gmail. Any notification and emails sent in tipsntricksdaily+newword@gmail.com will be redirected to your original tipsntricksdaily@gmail.com account.

Difference in Post and Reply

One common mistake that most users make is that they do not realize that when they start a tweet with @username (username can be anything), it is considered to be a reply to that person(username) by Twitter. It does not qualify as a new post. So the reply can only be seen by that person and by mutual followers, if any.

Awesome Advertisement Tool and Free Analytics-

Unlike advertisement tools on other social networking sites, Twitter’s advertisement tool lets you reach out to a particular target audience only. Through this your followers will not see the post and you can reach out to more people as per your target leading to better utilization of money.

Added to that is their free analytics service for all your posts for the last 28 days. Visit  analytics.twitter.com for that. It provides overall impressions, engagement rate, link clicks, re-tweets, favorites and replies for all tweets.

List- a fine feature to pursue

Most people are unaware of this feature which helps in filtering through the followers you have and list them in specific niche. To create one, click lists option and to add people, go to their profile and click the list icon on the right side of the screen. wefollow.com adds you to all the lists you find interesting.

SMS tweets and Widget-

Another awesome feature of Twitter is that it provides an extension through which you can send tweets via SMS. It also provides widget so that you can use it in your website or blog to make your account visible and within the reach of daily visitors. Along with that Twitter also provides ‘embed the post’ in more option to post the tweet in your blog.

Third-party play:

• twitaholic.com is a site which brings you the top profiles in twitter in terms of maximum number of followers.
• Useqwitter.com informs you about the follower who unfollows you and also mentions the posts for which he/she might have done so.
• Magaflitter.com lets to have a clear view of the people who are not following you back, or a list of inactive followers from which you can take appropriate measures.
• Ads.twitter.com lets you to schedule a tweet for future.
• For more such third-party tools visit :http://twitter.pbworks.com/w/page/1779726/Apps

Quick Tips and Stats-

To be a smart Twitter user, you have to know the common twitter lingo like @reply, Hashtag, RT(Re-tweet),Trending Topics and so on.

Tweets with images have 94% more chance of getting re-tweeted, while that with #hashtags have 55% and tweets with “” quotes have 30% more chance of retweeting. 80% of retweets are news. The ideal length of retweets is 110-115 characters.

Twitter Shortcuts

We have a list of Twitter shortcuts for you which will make tweeting and navigating on the site more fun.

I am sure you must have found this article useful as always. Hope you have a wonderful experience using these tips. Have fun tweeting.

Thank You.

-  askdirt

Periscope: Twitter launches a new app that lets you stream live videos from your phone

Twitter launched a video streaming app called Periscope, just days after reports that it had blocked a rival app called Meerkat.

Meerkat relies heavily on Twitter and has become hugely popular in the month since its launch.

Twitter's announcement comes on the same day that Meerkat unveiled a list of investors that included Silicon Valley venture capitalists Greylock Partners and Sound Ventures, Ashton Kutcher's fund.

Meerkat's new round of funding is widely expected to have raised millions of dollars.

The app, which already boasts celebrity users such as talk show host Jimmy Fallon, lets people stream videos that cannot be rewatched.

Twitter said in a blog post that it bought Periscope in January.

Unlike Meerkat, Periscope allows users to save and replay videos later, according to tech website The Verge. The app is currently available in the Apple App Store, and an Android app is also in the works, Twitter said.

The company bought video-sharing service Vine in 2012 and has since been aggressively expanding its capabilities to carry pictures, videos and interactive content far richer than the 140-character messages it is best known for.

Vine is now one of the most popular apps in Apple's iTunes store, with Twitter users increasingly sharing short, six-second video clips in the form of tweets.

Twitter's shares were up 2 per cent at $50.51 in afternoon trading on the New York Stock Exchange.

- IBN

Twitter Group Messaging And Video Service Launched

In efforts to differentiate itself from Facebook and other rivals, Twitter adds a few more features to keep users engaged.

Twitter Inc recently added a few new features to make its micro-blogging platform more useful and relevant. The website added group direct messages and mobile video editing features.

Twitter wants users to connect as groups

The new direct messaging feature for groups offers the same level of privacy that traditional direct messages provide, only this time, the messages are in a shared space. This feature makes it easier for group collaborations or for family members to stay in touch without having to send the same message individually. Another bonus with the group messaging service is that users can send messages to anyone on Twitter and not just those they follow. The private conversations can include up to 20 people in a group. Users can save their groups and change the group names.Although Twitter maintains a focus on public conversations, it is trying to create a space for private conversations. Twitter’s latest move is refreshing in a world dominated by over-sharing on social media.

Twitter encourages users to share videos directly from the app

Twitter also added a new video feature that lets users capture footage, edit videos and share clips directly from the application. This feature will eliminate the need to import video clips from third-party services such as YouTube or Vine. Twitter’s product director, Jinen Kamdar, explained that the new video feature simplifies the process of capturing and sharing content. Within just a few taps, a user can upload a video without ever leaving the app.

The video sharing feature also enables users to preview the video as a thumbnail. Kamdar added that the new service allows users to film clips of up to 30 seconds and upload them from their camera roll. The latter feature is exclusive to iPhone users.

The new updates are said to be rolling out slowly over the next few days, starting today. Kamdar added that the updates are taking a long time to reach users.

-  valuewalk

Twitter Tips

Get noticed

• Follow other people. Use hashtag searches or scroll through the followers of your colleagues’ accounts to get ideas on who to follow. You’ll alert more people to your account and often get a follow back too.
• Don’t be afraid to be a suck up. When you tweet a link to one of your stories, try to include the twitter handles of your sources or the companies they represent. They’ll be more likely to respond or retweet if they know about the tweet. Send out #FF (follow Friday) tweets at the end of the week with a list of interesting industry people.
• Use hashtags in your tweets. Make it easy for people interested in the topics you tweet about to find your content. (I tend to use #apparel, #embroidery and #promoproducts a lot.)
• Know Twitter conventions. If you’re Tweeting directly at someone with their @name as the beginning of the tweet, that tweet only comes up in the feeds of users who follow both you and the person you are directly tweeting. I’ll put a period at the beginning of the name to make sure everyone can see the tweet. (example: .@yourname is xxxxxx xxxx.)

Create conversations.

• Respond to comments. Try always to respond when someone mentions you on Twitter, even if it’s just to say thanks. (If it’s a weirdo or troll, then feel free to ignore or block).
• Retweet and react. Try to take a few minutes of your week to retweet or comment on interesting stuff you find on your feed or in industry-related searches.
• Be consistent. Post at least once a day. The more you use Twitter, the more engagement you’ll build.

Share quality content.

• Use photos. I know I’m more likely to click on the link if there’s a picture to entice me.
• Be real. People want to know there’s a real person behind your account. That doesn’t mean you have to tweet about your breakfast or a bunch of personal stuff, but it’s good to show some personality and have a conversational tone.
• Link to your stories. (and other interesting stuff you see on the web.) You want to draw people back to your site, but don’t want them to see you as always just “selling” your own content. Also it’s OK to tweet the same link more than once, as long as you’re not constantly spamming people. I like to change the intro to experiment with what will pique the interest of more followers.
• Live tweet from events.

source:- asicentral

Twitter Launches Tool To Help Women Report Harassment

The micro-blogging site has launched a tool that will allow women to report abuse and harassment on Twitter and get the issue resolved within 24 hours.

Developed with the help a non-profit organisation known as Women, Action and Media (WAM), the tool is another weapon in Twitter's fight against online trolls and bullies.

WAM will monitor incoming reports and bring them to Twitter, as well as track Twitter's responses to help the company improve its policies around harassment, Wired.com reported.

"We are using this pilot project to learn about what kind of gender harassment is happening on Twitter, how that harassment intersects with other kinds of harassment (racist, transphobic etc) and what types of cases Twitter is prepared (and less prepared) to respond to," a post on WAM website read. 

"We are not Twitter and we cannot make decisions for them. We are going to do our best to advocate for you with them, though," the post added.

source:- gizbot

Twitter Tips and Tricks 2014: Here are 5 Hidden Features to Know

Twitter is soon scheduled for an entire general makeover. There are host of new features and functionalities in the pipeline for Twitter that are set to make an arrival sometime next year. Apparently, these new changes will be based on video, direct messaging, alerts and notifications, and more. 

Twitter may be one of the top social networking sites out there, but it still faces a lot of competition from the likes of Facebook. Hence making new additions to the overall usability of the service neither seems like a rumor nor something illogical. Let alone the hidden ones.

But what are these hidden features everyone is talking about? And how does it alter the overall feel and look of the Twitter that we have known for so long? Here's a closer look. 

Tagging People 

Did you know that every time you add a new photo to a tweet, you can tag up to 10 people who are in the photo? Interestingly, these tags won't count against your 140 characters. You will find the tagging option just below the compose box for your tweet. 

Twitter Via SMS

You can actively tweet via text messaging from your Twitter settings, and you'll receive a custom number where you can send tweets, reply to users, favorite, retweet, follow, unfollow, and more. There are the ones such as D [username] + message, GET [username] and more to make use of. 

Bunch of Tweets Together 

Twitter allows its users to compose a custom timeline. This contains only the tweets you choose to include. These collections can be done via Tweetdeck, Twitter's free management dashboard app. Just add a new "Custom timeline" column to your Tweetdeck dashboard, and drag-and-drop the tweets you wish to add. 

Mute Account

If you feel you are not really interested to know details from a certain account, rather than unfollowing someone, you could mute the account for as long as you'd like. This is helpful if you are looking to maintain a low profile online. Click on the "More" drop-down and choose "Mute" from the list of options. 

Twitter Photo Collage With the Twitter photo collage, you can share up to four photos in a single tweet. When composing any, upload an image and then click on the "Add more" option to keep adding pics. 

source:- gizbot

Twitter – How to Go Beyond the 140 Character Limit?

Twitter is one of the most popular social media sites that users go to, in order to connect with friends and catch the latest news among other things.

Users, however, complain that the 140 characters are too few for them to express themselves fully. Fortunately, there are ways to maximize on the limiting characters and ultimately pass your message across.

Origin of 140 Characters

The limiting word count on Twitter is thought to have come from the founders of Twitter Inc. who stuck with the constrictive number to enable users to send messages via their phone, since the standard character count for an SMS is 140. Twitter allows for an additional 20 characters for the username of the person tweeting. Since Twitter initially started as a mobile messenger, the character count stuck even after diversifying to computers and more complex smartphones and tablets.

Twitter messengers are called tweets while Twitter users are known as Tweeps.

Brevity

You are forced to be brief so that you write the point you want to convey in the least words possible since the Twitter messenger does not allow spill-over of excess words. You are supposed to make your point within the character limit and not endless paragraphs.

Double Tweet

If 140 characters are not enough for you to pass your point across there is no problem. Type another tweet after the first one to follow up the previous tweet. Be sure to post them in quick succession so that your followers can read them in the order you have sent them. If you delay in tweeting the remaining portion of the tweet, your followers will get confused and lose track of the information you intended to convey.

You might want to include the phrase “to be continued” or “cont’d” in short in order for your followers to expect more content.

Share Links

If you are a blogger or a web admin with a substantial number of readers you better share a link instead of tweeting the entire blog because of course it will not fit. Consider adding other multimedia messages rather than just words. Use photos and videos to summarize your points in a way that will catch the curiosity of your followers.

The beauty of sharing links is that links relieve you of the task of explaining. You can abandon that task by directing the readers to the post and go poetic. That way, the readers will be curious to know what is that you posted. You can throw in a few quotes and words of wisdom to lure your followers to your tweet. If they like it they will re-tweet and eventually it may go viral.

Mind Your Language

One reason why words go overboard the limit is poor spelling and grammatical errors. If you choose words carefully and eliminate grammatical mistakes, the words will fit. Be concise. Avoid repetitive words. Use the most appropriate words to make your point.

Twitter has introduced emojis. These cartoon characters will shorten your character count because of their visual appeal.

Diversify

This is for Twitter developers, upgrade your messenger to include other updates rather than status update such as “at school” or “at work”. Nowadays people tweet about weather, news, sports and mundane things like food. Twitter took the cue by adopting “What are you doing?” or better still, “What’s happening?” It can do better by freeing people to write about anything they want in their tweets.

Twitter can learn from Google+ how to make conversations natural rather than frustrating them by allowing users to type as much as they want and track their chats easily.

source:- http://pressandupdate.com/twitter-go-beyond-140-character-limit/