Ashton Kutcher Bests CNN In Twitter Race

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Actor Ashton Kutcher @aplusk beat CNN and Africa gets 10000 mosquito nets to beat Malaria on the continent!
I am also with one voter who mentioned that the race shout continue and CNN should donate $1 for each new twit (Twitter user) that follow the actor. I am not following either but it will be a big show today on Oprah as the all the tweeties will show up to see Oprah's first tweet.
I checked Oprah's twitter page yesterday but I was surprised to find that she follows Shaq but not Obama!
Will see today!

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TweetShrink, Send Your Tweets To A Fat Camp

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Even though I do not tweet a lot with lengthy tweets, there are times that it is hard to fit everything within 140 characters. Also when I wrote about tweetie 1.3, I mentioned about integration of TweetShrink and twitlonger. There was a comment about usage of both. The commenter actually asked how to use them within the tweetie (answer below), I thought of jotting this down.
TweetShrink is available via a web interface or through an Adobe Air application, TweetDeck. Both allows you to post directly to twitter.
Following is an 145 charactors shrunk to 136 charactors without losing the meaning and fitting within the 140 character limitation.

Tweetshrink tries its very best to fit your text within the Tweet limits by replacing common phrases words with shorter ones. Like drying them up (145)

Tweetshrink tries its very best 2 fit yr text w/in the Tweet limits by replacing common phrases words w/ shorter ones. lk drying them up (136)
Tweetie posted the following tip for using TweetShrink and TwitLonger via Tweetie, "type a tweet > 140 characters then press Send for Twitlonger & Tweetshrink options."

TweetShrink

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