I’m part of a growing Twitter group and I stumbled over the answer to sharing links with a long URL that bumped up on the 140 character limit. When this happened, I had room for two or three short words of explanation in my tweet.
When I posted this question yesterday, I received an immediate answer. I was pointed to the web app, www.tinyurl.com.
You insert the long URL and it immediately shortens it to a more manageable size.
Here’s an example:
The URL for my post yesterday where I posed this question looked like this– http://bloggingwithwes.com/2009/01/27/twitter-users-how-do-i-get-rid-of-my-ugly-url-for-a-tweet/
When I inserted in www.tinyurl.com, it came out looking like this- http://tinyurl.com/d9m5kv
It’s a major difference and it allows me to share my link in Twitter and to give a short explanation.