According to a blog post at the Twitter Blog the microblogging site is going to make life for users easier than ever before.
They will be adding a link shortening feature for your tweets.
Link shorteners became popular as a way to shorten long and impossible-to-remember URLs, but became essential for use on Twitter because of the 140 character limit on Tweets (posts to Twitter).
There are MANY services available to create a link using fewer than 20 characters. Each one looks like a bit of gobbledy-gook, but some can be recognized as coming from ow.ly (Hootsuite) dld.bz (SocialOomph) bit.ly (Bitly).
At present and historically, if you wanted to shorten a URL for use on Twitter, you had to do so outside of Twitter in one of the 3rd party applications. Twitter says that later this summer, users will be able to shorten the URL as they make their TWEET update.
Some URL shorteners offer additional tools: Bit.ly and Hootsuite can track the hits on your shortened link. Hootsuite (Ow.ly) and SocialOomph (dld.bz) have many elements for managing Twitter, such as the ability to schedule tweets ahead of time. This frees-up users to take care of other Twitter activities such as retweeting, replying and making more of the social aspect that makes Twitter work so well.
The folks at Twitter have been steadily developing new options for their microblogging site.
Please take advantage of Twitter, and other social media sites like Facebook and YouTube, and use them to promote your business and the individual decorative concrete jobs you complete.