Keep your WP title length shorter than 118 characters for these work: WP.me — shorten your links
Posted by jpluimers on 2012/08/13
When you have a WordPress.com account, articles can have multiple links, one of which is a shortlink in the WP.me domain.
For instance, this article has these links:
- http://wp.me/pvelJ-2wX
- https://wiert.me/?p=9731
- https://wiert.me/2012/08/13/watch-your-wp-title-length-so-these-work-wp-me-shorten-your-links
- https://wiert.wordpress.com/2012/08/13/watch-your-wp-title-length-so-these-work-wp-me-shorten-your-links
When it gets published, and you publicize through Twitter, the WP.me shortcut gets appended to your Tweet.
Since WP.me shortlinks are 22 characters long, you loose 23 characters (an extra space is needed for separation) of Tweet size.
Which means your blog title should be nog longer than 117 characters (i.e. shorter than 118 characters).
The reason: 117+23 = 140, 140 is the maximum Tweet length (based on the SMS limit if 140 octets).
If you want people to be able to retweet with RT, and keep the full Tweet content, then the 140 becomes even swhorter. For me (I’m @jpluimers which is 10 characters, combined with the “RT: ” of 4 characters that totals to 14), the maximum of 140 suddenly becomes 136, and the 117 now becomes 103.
So for publicizing on Twitter:
- general blog title should be maximum of 117 characters
- blog title that can be retweeted should be 112 characters minus the length of your Twitter account name
–jeroen
via:
- WP.me — shorten your links — Blog — WordPress.com.
- Pluperfecter: internet marketing, music promotions, web usability, blogs, social media, Peoria, IL: maximum Twitter message length for retweeting.
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