How Writing Tweets Makes You a Better Writer

Twitter, the social media giant which is grown to roughly 200,000,000 users in the last four years. It’s far more than a simple micro blogging platform, however. For one thing it’s a great way to network with other professionals in your niche as well as communicate with your customers.
It’s important to keep in mind that it is not just massively popular and a great way to promote your website or company, but it’s also great for improving your writing abilities. Let’s take a look at how Twitter can make you a better writer.
If you’ve ever heard of Twitter, it’s likely that you’re already familiar with their signature 140 character limit. Everything which you type from spaces to letters to numbers and symbols counts as a character. This forces you as a writer to ration those characters and really be as direct in what you have to say as possible. This is always how you should be writing no matter what the format. Overly wordy writing can appear dull and bloated and take your reader out of your writing very quickly.
Twitter is an especially great way to temper your sales copy because when writing for sales it’s absolutely necessary that you remain as brief and to the point as possible in order to engage your reader. You can take this with you whenever you write in other mediums to really get the most out of your audience.
Just take a look at most billboards or ads which you see while driving around your city and you’ll typically see excellent examples of sales copy which is direct, to the point, and very engaging for its audience while being limited in its length, as well.
Another way which Twitter improves your writing is through improving your vocabulary. Remember, with the character limit set at 140, you are forced to use less and shorter words to convey the same meaning as you would using many more words in another scenario.
This forces us as writers to think a little bit harder while writing one of our tweets and even refer to our thesaurus a little more often to learn some different words to convey the same or a better meaning while being less verbose. Who knew that such a seemingly trendy micro blogging platform used for sharing the mundane details of someone’s day could also be a great tool for beefing up our lexicons.
We have covered two ways in which Twitter improves your copy and skills as a writer.