Long Tweets from WordPress

Twitter is a great tool for interaction. However, it’s 140 character limit can often act as an obstruction in your thoughts. The stress is then on fitting the thought in the limit instead of getting the real meaning out.

WordPress, in it’s simple blog format, is a great blogging tool. You can quickly set it up for writing long blog posts with proper post title to get your point across. But some times, all you want to get across is a paragraph or a couple of lines. This model doesn’t fit in either WordPress or Twitter. What we need to do is to get WordPress to bend to the Twitter model yet remain a blog in a real sense. That way, we can post long tweets to your blog and have them reflect on twitter as well, driving traffic to your blog as well as getting your tweet across. (more…)