Are Your Tweets Retweetable?

 If you know me at all, you know that tweeting is my passion. I won't go into all the reasons right here, right now. This post is intended for one purpose --->

Which is:

To beg/plead with all tweeters......

PLEASE, make your tweet 120 characters or less, if you expect me, or ANYONE to retweet it.

I love to retweet anything that I find interesting/informative/useful. That's a large part of why I am engaged/enthralled with social media.... to connect... to share.. to introduce people to each other.. to support people who are working to help people use social media in their personal/biz/community lives.

But if you have used 140 characters in your original tweet: it means *I*  have to agonize over how to edit your tweet, to retain it's meaning, in order to retweet it.

I wouldn't find it surprising if new tweeters were guilty of this: Twitter tells us we have 140 characters after all... but there are many Social Media professionals who I am fortunate to know; who have a lot of great information that I want to share; who have been doing this far longer than I have, and who should know better.

And it's to those people primarily, that I address my comments. (Although new tweeters  would be well advised to learn this as well. )


It's a given, in the context of this conversation, that I find your tweets interesting/useful  enough to comment upon and share. But why should I have to spend MY time editing/modifying in order to RT/Share your comments???????

I will... and I do!!! ... spend my time.. to re-edit your tweet if I believe in you; and want to share your message with my followers.
But it's beyond tiresome...
And I am growing weary of it.

I would gladly... beyond gladly... RT and share many more tweets if it didn't take me 10-15 mins on each and every one; to make it retweetable





And while we're on the subject.... if you have a link.... which is often the most important part of your tweet....  and you post it at the end of your tweet..... You DO KNOW,  I assume, that the link will be the part that is dropped unless I spend *MY* time, re-editing your original tweet ???

Why don't you put your link where it won't get dropped if I don't have the time to spend to modify your tweet?

Bottom line is: if I find your tweet interesting enough to RT, I want a few characters available to tell my network WHY I'm retweeting you...WHY I'm recommending they follow your link... and I want space for a hashtag or two to bring your tweet/your link to the attention of the specific groups who I think I can best promote/recommend  to you.   

K?
120 is the new 140