One of the very few irritating things about Twitter is the limit of 140 characters per tweet. It becomes extremely hard especially when you try to share a link with your Twitter friends. So what to do? Just break the rules 
Below are the 5 ways to tweet more than 140 characters every time!
1. TinyPaste
Tinypaste lets you type or paste in a large amount of text, and then assigns it with a tiny url, to put into tweets, Plurks etc… It also comes with a nifty Firefox extension that allows you to select, right click and get a url straight away, a handy little tool, which is useful more than just for tweeting!
2. Bigtweet
Bigtweet enables Twitterers to send tweets of up to 280 characters even if you’re not on the profile page. It is a bookmarklet which breaks up tweets of up to 280 characters into multiple sections and sends it to your Twitter profile from any webpage you’re browsing. Not only that, this impressive Web tool provides tons of special unicode characters such as smiley face emotions, music symbols, trademark signs and many more. All these makes your tweets more lively!
3. txtB.in
It is similar to Tinypaste and allows you to share text data with anyone in the world in two steps. You enter the text into the text field and hit the save txt button. It then gives you a shortened URL that you can share with your friends to read this text. Absolutely no restriction on the character size.
4. TwitLonger
TwitLonger will post it to twitter using your account with 140 chars, including a Read More link to the full tweet. You can write what you need and a link to what you said will automatically be posted. If it still asks for an invite – get a beta invite at hello@twitlonger.com
5. TwitBlogs
TwitBlogs is a combination of Twitter and Blogging where you get the features of both worlds. You can use your Twitter user credentials to login to TwitBlogs. Once you login, you can compose your posts like in normal blogging with title, basic formatting, tags etc. Once you are done with the composing you can publish the item. The post published with be available as a tweet with a link to the post. You have the option to directly use Twitter from TwitBlogs as well. If you want the best of both blogging and Twitter, then twitblogs is the perfect twitter companion for you.
Any other services available? Any better ones? Let me know!
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December 29th, 2008 at 5:00 am
And you forgot Twitzer from http://shortxt.com/twitzer.aspx? These are the guys who started this. And this one is right from inside Twitter.com
December 29th, 2008 at 6:31 am
Oopss Thanks Casey! I knew about missing couple of others, but I completely missed out Twitzer. Thanks
December 29th, 2008 at 6:58 pm
Great tools. I always run out of characters, especially when posting urls. So this will definitely be useful. It definitely beats me trying to make my tweets more concise.
December 29th, 2008 at 8:32 pm
Hey Raju, this is really a nice post mate. I am always run out of the 140 char’s limit while on Twitter, Luckily Twitter Deck is making my life much easier now.
December 29th, 2008 at 9:09 pm
Only problem with TwitterDeck is that it hogs memory
atleast in my notebook it does. Welcome to my Blog Amit and thanks for commenting!
January 17th, 2009 at 3:09 am
Great post..bookmarked
January 18th, 2009 at 11:53 am
There are even more twitter applications that overcome limit of 140 characters such as “TwitterMail”, “ToAnswer”, “gtwit”, “2tweet” and more…you can find complete list at: http://i-stuff.blogspot.com/search/label/Twitter
January 18th, 2009 at 3:31 pm
whoa!! Your blog is stuffed with twitter apps, amazing collection indeed!! Thanks Kevin!
January 18th, 2009 at 6:41 pm
You’re welcome Raju.. indeed your blog is very informative.. keep it up..
January 31st, 2009 at 8:35 pm
Great list Raju. Everybody has this frustrating problem with too long tweets. oh, and you forgot the service that rewrites your tweets so they become smaller and ready to post.
I’ve written post about it here:
http://gnoted.com/reduce-long-tweets-to-140-characters-twitter-service/
January 31st, 2009 at 9:07 pm
@gennice,
Thanks man, will update my post about 140it
March 5th, 2009 at 8:40 am
Just built a new one: http://twerbose.com. Its like “Verbose” get it? k not funny.
June 15th, 2009 at 6:01 pm
i generally use different mechanism. I let twitter shorten my url and then adjust the next message accordingly. Think gonna try one of the suggestions you have made. Thanks Raju.
July 5th, 2009 at 10:02 pm
This is great, I have seen a few tweets that are more than 140 chr. and it seems like it would be nice to uses every now and then. Thanks for the info I going to tell my follows about it as soon as possible.
Thanks again.
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August 21st, 2009 at 10:29 am
Great round up of ways to tweet more characters!
September 2nd, 2009 at 7:07 am
Just tried 140it. It’s broken. I’ll stick with Twitzer.
October 29th, 2009 at 9:19 am
Thanks for this post. I really used all ways to post my sites content on Twitter.
November 10th, 2009 at 9:06 am
100 Times More Characters per Tweet with TweetExtend.com
November 24th, 2009 at 12:58 am
Another good way to share short messages is Runtly (http://runt.ly). Runt.ly lets you create short, blog-style posts via a shortened url (you can even include pictures and embedded videos).
December 27th, 2009 at 10:28 pm
I recently started using twiffo http://twiffo.com to tweet more than 140 characters since it shows my profile pic and background image with my long tweet
February 9th, 2010 at 3:35 pm