As a free social messaging utility, Twitter lets people around the world to stay connected in real-time. One special things about Twitter tweet is the limit of 140 characters at one time. This will become extremely a problem especially when you try to share a very long link with your Twitter friends. So what to do now? Just try some of this great ways to tweet More Than 140 Characters.
1. twitlonger
Twitlonger is a simple service that lets you post those tricky messages that really do need more than 140 characters and send them to Twitter. Twitlonger – When you talk too much for Twitter.
2. tinypaste
Hello there! This is a pastebin, use it.
TinyPaste is a service that lets you take large amounts of text and put it all in one place, and then gives you a tiny url to share it with your friends. With Tinypaste, you type or paste in a large amount of text, and then assigns it with a tiny url, to put into tweets, Plurks… It also comes with a nifty Firefox extension that allows you to select, right click and get a url straight away.
3. txtb
txtb.in – write a little more.
4. bigtweet
Surf the web and post to Twitter!
A great companion to TweetDeck or twhirl. No registration required. Post to Twitter from any web page. When you click on the BigTweet bookmarklet, a window appears in the middle of your current web page. Use it to post to Twitter and then return to what you were doing. Choose a 140 or 240 character limit. A 140 char limit is a classic Twitter post. You can optionally enable up to 240 characters. Depending upon the size of your update, your post might occur in one tweet, or two clearly labeled sequential tweets.
Give it a try! Include special unicode characters.
There is a whole range of special characters that can be included to help express what you’d really like to say. Shorten URLs without leaving the current Web page URL shortening can translate a long URL into a short one. This can be done right from the window you open with the bookmarklet. The URL of the current page is automatically captured, though any URL can be entered for shortening. Capture and automatically insert highlighted text, title and link.
5. twitblogs
With the combination of Twitter and Blogging TwitBlogs lets you to get the features of both worlds. You can use your Twitter user credentials to login to TwitBlogs. Over there, you can compose your posts like in normal blogging with title, , tags and some basic blog formatting. After that, you can publish the item. There is an option for you to directly use Twitter from TwitBlogs as well. If are finding a tool of both blogging and Twitter, then twitblogs is the perfect twitter companion for you now.The post published with be available as a tweet with a link to the post.
6. shorttext twitzerTwitzer is a Firefox extension which lets you post text longer than 140 characters on Twitter.com. Once installed, log on to the Twitter site normally and type away in the update box (ignore the character count when it goes into minus and turns red). It can also convert TinyURL.com links to actual links so that you are sure what link will open.
January 17, 2009 at 6:12 pm
Hello…where is the grand daddy of Twitter beyond 140 – http://shorttext.com/twitzer.aspx?
March 13, 2009 at 8:50 am
Thank you for the extra. I have added in shorttext twitzer as suggested for number six.