It happens to the best of us: you have something to say, and it’s far, far longer than the meager 140 characters that twitter allots you. By now, most of us have developed coping mechanisms for this catastrophe, coping mechanisms that are replete with crimes against grammar (if not humanity). But, a tweeter’s gotta do what a tweeter’s gotta do. Am I right?

How to Cut Your Tweets to 140 Characters (or Less)

• Remove your final period. It’s useless (+1, easy peasy)
• Remove any and all apostrophes. Theyve got absolutely no reason to be in a tweet  (+3-5 on average)
• 1st round of abbrevs: words u can easily abbrev in ways that wont make ppl think ur tweet looks ridiculous (This is NOT where u chg “for” to 4) (+5ish)
• Remove unnecessary commas. Occasionally theres a comma u need for clarity but mostly theyre just taking up space (+2-5)
• Use semi-colons when you can; it takes the place of “and” (+3 at least)
• If ur still in a bind & not sure what to do, chg “and” to “&”
• NOTE: Personally im against using 2 & 4 for “to” and “for” but I know a lot of people use these so ill nod to it (+1-3, on average)
• Remove personal pronouns. dont need them. gonna need the extra chars. more
• if ur tweet still isnt shrt enough, u have to initiate th massacre: cutting vowels. theyre nt all as imp. as u thnk. rly.
• #usehashtags #youdontneedspacesforthat #superhandywhenyoureinabind

Dnt wrry if ppl cant rd ur twt. #theyllfigureitoutsoonerorlater