Twitter Tool#1 – Twitter-friendly url shortener
If you’ve been tooling around the digital landscape for a while you’re probably very familiar with url shortener website services like www.Tinyurl.com
If used tiny url and another one which I can’t remember right now for a while, but I recently signed up to Twitter (a 140-character or less micro-blogging service) and found that I’m having serious issues staying with the 140 character limit. Apparently I inherited my late father’s gift for..um…verbosity.
Anyway, after having swallowed up my nervousness (See: Why I was nervous about joining Twitter) and signing up for Twitter, I ran smack dab into this brevity issue and even tinyurl didn’t seem to be enough…
I needed every last character of space I could find to get most of my ideas out within one tweet (and regardless of what Twitter etiquette allows or doesn’t, certain character quirks won’t let me even attempt to divide my thoughts into 2 tweets – Is that even allowed in Twitterdom?)
Anyway, what I’m trying to get at is that I found this nifty url shortening website at http://is.gd (My question: How is that domain even possible? were the DNS guards asleep? Is that even legal?).
So now my twittering has an 8 character breathing space (tinyurl’s were mostly 25 characters) because the is.gd urls have been coming out at 17 characters…(ahhh the freedom)
Till next time.
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Gogo Erekosima is an entrepreneur and small business coach. He is President & CEO at Idea Age Consulting, and specializes in helping stagnant companies experience double and triple-digit revenue increases by deploying a customized, modular idea age marketing system. He has also coached executives, entrepreneurs & sales pro in industries including direct marketing, financial services, telecommunications, real estate, as well as non-profit organizations.
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