Twitter: A “Dream 10″ Guide on How to Say it in 140 Characters (Part II)

“Let your brain get into gear, then write- eliminate starting excess!”

You’re starting your Tweet, and your brain is revving into gear.  It’s a common writing faux pas to allow your fingers to start typing that initial garbage that spills forth while your brain is warming up. If you look at past Tweets you’ve made, you’ll find a tons of unnecessary baggage at the beginning of your Tweets. Aim to eliminate that process by focusing on what you want to say before you type your Tweet- but once you do, go back and check the start- sometimes excess slips through anyways!

Let’s examine some samples:

While this provides for an understandable lead-in to the discussed tale of drinking woe, it’s not necessary- and prevents others from being able to RT your comment if they desire, because you’ve cluttered it down with far too much “brain waste” at the start.  Let’s clean this up a bit, shall we?

See how you still get your point across the same, but you don’t have the um’s, uh’s, prayers and other extraneous starting verbal waste?  This Tweet is now short, sweet and funny- and easily re-tweetable. We’ve gone from the un-Tweetable -12 to vast empty fields of space with 43 characters remaining.

We’re up to tip 9? The end is nigh, but the tips are just as valuable!