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How to improve the writing in your tweets
Read the full story at PC World.
PC World seems to think that only now, thanks to Twitter, after years of dull PowerPoints and say-nothing CEO columns, businesspeople are awakening to the consequences of bad writing. “Twitter’s growing popularity has yielded one unusual result: It has exposed the frailty of writing skills in the business world,” according to PC World. Ah-ha, sure. Anyway, PC World offers a handful of tips on how to improve the writing in your tweets — some of them are questionable. There is at least one worthwhile tip, though, and it’s a rehash from Marshall Thompson, a guest blogger at the Pistachio Web site: “Keep it short, no puns, use keywords, use hashtags, don’t consolidate stories (one tweet per story), link directly to story (not home page — don't be a page-view monger), and don’t use subheads.” What? No puns? That's a twying shame. (Oh come on, who could resist?)
PC World seems to think that only now, thanks to Twitter, after years of dull PowerPoints and say-nothing CEO columns, businesspeople are awakening to the consequences of bad writing. “Twitter’s growing popularity has yielded one unusual result: It has exposed the frailty of writing skills in the business world,” according to PC World. Ah-ha, sure. Anyway, PC World offers a handful of tips on how to improve the writing in your tweets — some of them are questionable. There is at least one worthwhile tip, though, and it’s a rehash from Marshall Thompson, a guest blogger at the Pistachio Web site: “Keep it short, no puns, use keywords, use hashtags, don’t consolidate stories (one tweet per story), link directly to story (not home page — don't be a page-view monger), and don’t use subheads.” What? No puns? That's a twying shame. (Oh come on, who could resist?)
