Longer Tweets - How to Extend Your Tweets Beyond 140 Characters

Extending Your Tweets Beyond the 140 Character Limit

Most of the time, 140 characters are enough for a good tweet. If you're like me though, you can't always string together a coherent thought in that amount of space.

After one such occurrence, I decided it would be great if there was a web based application that would allow you to write an extended tweet. The web application would automatically create a short URL for tweets over 140 characters, and then post your message to twitter in a user selectable length that included the short link to the full message.

Well, like usual, I was a little late to the party. After a quick search, I found many services that would do something like this already. Rather than try to re-invent the wheel, I decided to use this site as a pointer to help you find some cool 140+ services.

Web Services for Longer Tweets

TwitLonger

Just press the sign-in button and start tweeting. After you wear those fingers down, simply hit submit, and your tweet (with as much text as twitter allows) will automatically post to twitter. Your tweet will include a link so people can continue reading the full message.

TwitPlus

Created by @WilliamIsted, TwitPlus lets you easily create messages longer than 140 characters. TwitPlus automatically adds a link to your tweet if you go over Twitter's 140 character limit. The service works great. Give it a try! TwitPlus also offers an iPad and iPhone app.

TweetExtend.Com

Who needs 140 characters when you can have 14,000. Type or paste your message in the TweetExtend text box and sign in via twitter. Your tweet will include a Bit.ly link to the "extended" tweet.

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