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A Twitter Trick That’s Easy and Extends Reach

twitter-follow-achiever-1Thinking of something to tweet can be extra work for bloggers who spend a great deal of time as it is on their posts.

There is a neat little app which takes seconds to use that can help turn your gems of wisdom into a tweet.

 

 

Click to Tweet.

Highlight your tweetable thought in your blog post and copy it.

Go to http://clicktotweet.com/home?clicktotweettabs=1

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Before you forget bookmark this page so you can return to it easily and quickly.

Paste your tweetable text in the large white box. Edit it to fit if necessary.

Click Generate Link.

A short url will appear in the gray box.

Copy the url link.

Return to your blog post in editing format.

Either highlight the tweetable text or type in “Click to Tweet” at the end of the segment you want to tweet.

Add the link.

You’re done. Takes about 30 seconds.

Now if your readers agree that what you have written is worth sharing, all they have to do is click the link and off it goes.

You’ve expanded your reach to that of your readers.

14 Dec 2012

Getting Ready for Our First Tweet

Ready, Set, Go

So what should we tweet about? That IS the question.

We noticed that South Dakota Synod of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America began their Advent season by tweeting the first verse of a popular Advent hymn:

Light one candle to watch for Messiah. Let the light banish darkness.

That’s a nice thought. We will retweet it. (More on retweeting later).

We could tweet a Bible verse. We listed a few dozen for our readers in a post a week or so ago.

But we are also remembering the advice from the pros: social media is about connecting with others. If we want followers, our tweets have to appeal to others or people will just gloss over them. So we are going to work on a mix of material to use in our tweets. We won’t avoid the message of the Gospel but we will talk about things that might appeal to an even broader audience. In addition we will write about things happening here in our neighborhood (roughly East Falls, Germantown, Wissahickon, Manayunk and Roxborough and the tail end of City Line Avenue in Philadelphia).

We are going to start with something just for fun. It’s a riddle. We’ll pose the question in the first tweet and an hour or so later, we will tweet the answer.

Remember, we are new at this, too. This is a process of discovery for all of us.

So today’s task won’t take more than 10 minutes and half of that will be first time jitters.

  1. Retweet the South Dakota Synod’s tweet.
  2. Tweet our own riddle.
  3. Tweet the answer to our riddle.

If you want to take part in the experiment. Start your Twitter account and start following us! We will follow you back! Let’s see if Twitter is as powerful as they say it is!

01 Dec 2012