[Hidden-tech] Twitter-software question

Jeff Rutherford jeff at jeffrutherford.com
Mon Dec 28 09:59:08 EST 2009


I wanted to thank everyone who responded to my question. I appreciate the input, suggestions, and help.

Jeff

Jeff Rutherford
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On Dec 18, 2009, at 12:59 AM, Mik Muller wrote:

>   ** Be sure to fill out the survey/skills inventory in the member's area.
>   ** If you did, we all thank you.
> 
> 
> The text editor macro idea sounds easiest to me. I use Textpad(.com).  
> The whole operation would take 15 seconds.
> 
> That said, I agree that while cutting edge and gimicky, it's still  
> gimicky, and seems a little unweildy. Ten pages 140 characters at a  
> time comes to like 70 tweets in a row, no?
> 
> Mik
> 413-320-5336
> 
> Sent from my iPhone
> 
> On Dec 17, 2009, at 4:02 PM, "Claudia Gere"  
> <Claudia at ClaudiaGereCo.com> wrote:
> 
>>  ** Be sure to fill out the survey/skills inventory in the member's  
>> area.
>>  ** If you did, we all thank you.
>> 
>> 
>> Jeff,
>> 
>> What comes immediately to mind is to adjust the page margins to
>> automatically limit the line length at 120 characters per line (120  
>> will
>> allow for retweeting). If you want to make it 140 or fewer, then  
>> you'll have
>> to create a custom page size.
>> 
>> Change the font throughout the document to Courier New, 10 pt.,  
>> which has a
>> character count of 12 per inch.
>> 
>> Convert your file to plain text (Save as .txt).
>> 
>> Delete all the paragraph marks/breaks (Replace All ^p with nothing)
>> 
>> Set your Page Layout to landscape.
>> 
>> Make your left and right margins of an 11-inch page to .50, which  
>> leaves a
>> 10-inch line (or longer if you want 140 characters).
>> 
>> Decide whether to leave hyphenation on or off.
>> 
>> That should make each line approximately 120 characters or fewer.
>> 
>> Hope this helps, Claudia
>> 
>> 
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>> 
>> -----Original Message-----
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>> Jeff
>> Rutherford
>> Sent: Thursday, December 17, 2009 1:06 PM
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>> Subject: [Hidden-tech] Twitter-software question
>> 
>>  ** Be sure to fill out the survey/skills inventory in the member's  
>> area.
>>  ** If you did, we all thank you.
>> 
>> 
>> I work with a book publisher on certain book marketing/PR projects.  
>> We're
>> considering taking a chapter of a new book and chopping it up and  
>> tweeting
>> the entire chapter - piece by piece.
>> 
>> However, I don't really want to manually have to go through a 8-10  
>> page
>> document and cut it up 140 characters at a time.
>> 
>> Do you know of any software that I could cut and paste the text and  
>> have it
>> automatically divide it up into 140 character chunks? Is there some  
>> hidden
>> feature within Microsoft Word that would do something like that?
>> 
>> 
>> Jeff
>> 
>> Jeff Rutherford
>> jeff at jeffrutherford.com
>> 413 475-0087 - phone
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