5 Essential Twitter Writing Tips

Effective writing requires preparation and discipline regardless of the medium. I’m learning that effective Twittering requires even more than the usual amount of skill because of the 140 character limitation.

1. If you seek retweets, keep your Tweet around 100 characters.
2. Write your blog post titles with Twitter in mind. A descriptive, enticing, and short post title helps out folks who want to tweet and retweet it, because now they don’t have to think so much about how to describe it.
3. For search purposes, use keywords(#tags) in your tweets. Lots of people track conversations on Twitter based on keywords.
4. For link tweets, effective summarization on Twitter means giving people a reason to retweet or reply or click through your link. For link tweets, you hope that the blog post title does the summarization work for you. 
5. When replying, make it easy for the receiver to identify the conversation stream.Remember that someone may view your reply immediately or hours or days later. Responses like “No kidding” and “I agree completely” may befuddle the receiver. Send messages like that enough, and followers will start tuning you out.