Wednesday July 09th 2008, 9:33 pm by Steve Portigal
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Services like Twitter and delicious limit the number of characters per message. Thsrs helps you compose better messages. Enter a longer word from your message, and Thsrs will suggest shorter words.
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is an interesting twist on the conventional thesaurus: enter a word, and it suggests shorter synonyms only. Why should you care? Well, it’s useful for Twitter posts, where you’re limited to 140 characters. (ViaAll This Chittah Chattah.) And speaking of shortening, here’s Mike Pope on “URL tinyfication” products such as TinyURL, which tranform long URLs into itty-bitty ones–again, handy for Twitter posts and anywhere else a long URL might be broken over two lines. I knew about
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