Twitter limits its tweets to 140 characters.  However, you should not look at this as an issue.  Instead look at it as an opportunity.  It may be hard to get your point across within that limit, and getting people to act on your tweets might be even harder, yet if you use the right approach, you can write effective tweets. Following are a few tips to writing effective tweets:

Think about your message first

Twitter is a fast-moving platform, so your tweets have to catch people’s eye.  For example, if you’ve written a blog post and want to share it on twitter, what should your tweet look like?  A bad example is:  In my new blog post, I’ve given tips on how to write effective tweets so that they get noticed – http://bit.ly/11sOdFu.  There are three reasons this tweet is bad:  it doesn’t have a key piece of information first, it rambles, and the language is clumsy.