140it converts words such as are to 'r' to keep it within the 140 character limit. "I am" gets converted to "Im". Such common substitutions are made. It uses bit.ly to reduce the length of URLs. If your tweet contains a company name, then it is swapped to its corresponding StockTwit symbol. The algorithm works very fine. And the message is conveyed to the user's followers without any lack of coherence.
140it is similar to the working of Tweetshrink, though in Tweetshrink one has to visit their homepage to shorten their tweets. 140it removes that particular burden off the user by giving the user a choice to place its button the user's browser thus making it simple.
Features :
- Reducing words to understandable abbreviations without change of meaning.
- Use of bit.ly to shrink URLs.
- Substitution of company names with their StockTwits symbols.
140it Demo from Vinicius Vacanti on Vimeo.
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