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Twitter Trends: Improve Your Tweets
by C.G. Lynch, PCWorld
May 2, 2009
The terse nature of tweets quickly exposes poor writing skills -- here's a tutorial on how to tweet smart.
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by C.G. Lynch, PCWorld
May 2, 2009
The terse nature of tweets quickly exposes poor writing skills -- here's a tutorial on how to tweet smart.
Twitter's growing popularity has yielded one unusual result: It has exposed the frailty of writing skills in the business world. You can fudge bad writing in a 20-slide presentation, but not in a 140-character tweet...
Some people follow thousands of other people on Twitter, populating their streams (home pages) with, in some cases, hundreds of tweets a minute. Obviously, people will skip over sloppy tweets, or trivial tweets, because they simply don't have the time. "If you sound like a 13-year-old in an instant message conversation, that's not going to make people want to read your [Twitter] messages" .
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