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Blogging Tip - Making Custom Tweets

We all want our blogs to get noticed. One way that happens is by word of mouth...or chirp , as the case may be. Today I'm going to pass on a blogging tip I learned from Ava Jae over at Writability . Ava frequently adds a couple of custom tweet links at the bottom of her posts, and I love them because they're so easy to use. When I asked her how she makes them, she kindly obliged me with a lesson. In the spirit of 'watch one, do one, teach one,' I'm passing it on to you. But my blog already offers a 'tweet this' option at the bottom of my posts, you say. That's true. But does it let you customize the tweet? As far as I know, the person tweeting can edit it, but the blog owner can't. And it doesn't shorten the URL either. By creating your own custom tweets and posting the links at the bottom of your blog articles, you can encourage visitors to spread the word about your post with the ease of a couple of clicks. Here's how it work...