Test your Twitter
I'm seeing more and more testers using twitter these days, so I thought a tip on designing and testing your tweets might be helpful.
Jakob Nielsen's Alertbox has a great lesson on designing your twitter post. He uses an iterative design process to make sure you express yourself clearly and succinctly.
Essentially, you need to:
It's much better put by the man himself. You can find his post here: http://www.useit.com/alertbox/twitter-iterations.html
I like the way he partially shortens the URL link to help emphasize the point of the tweet.
And you thought twitter was easy!
Jakob Nielsen's Alertbox has a great lesson on designing your twitter post. He uses an iterative design process to make sure you express yourself clearly and succinctly.
Essentially, you need to:
- Grab the user's attention. In his example he uses capitals to identify key words in the tweet
- Front-load the tweet with attractive keywords
- Be specific and try and keep your tweet to 130 characters so that others can re-tweet
- Save space by abbreviating over full sentences
- Don't make multiple points in your tweet
- Think about when you post your tweet
It's much better put by the man himself. You can find his post here: http://www.useit.com/alertbox/twitter-iterations.html
I like the way he partially shortens the URL link to help emphasize the point of the tweet.
And you thought twitter was easy!