Can't connect blog to Twitter. Message says I can tweet 140 letters only.

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  neverending1 · Member · Apr 11, 2011 at 3:23 am

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  I always send my blog to Tweeter after publishing it. For the last three days, I haven’t been able to get my regular Tweeter. I keep getting a response that says I can only tweet 140 letters and my blog won’t go through.

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  timethief · Member · Apr 11, 2011 at 3:59 am

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  Are you using Publicize? If so use the instructions for reconnecting.
  http://en.support.wordpress.com/publicize/#twitter
  Reconnecting Twitter http://en.support.wordpress.com/publicize/#reconnecting-twitter

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  timethief · Member · Apr 11, 2011 at 4:07 am

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  Also note that your titles a extremely long. Blog post titles appear in:
  * Search engine results
  * RSS feeds
  * Links from other bloggers
  * Social media sites
  * On your archive pages

  We post titles and shortlinks to Twitter. We do not post entire blog posts. I advise you make all blog post titles them very short and very specific. They ought to communicate in as few words as possible what the subject matter in the post is. If you do that then the number of characters will not exceed the Twitter character limit.

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  thesacredpath · Member · Apr 11, 2011 at 4:30 am

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  Your latest post has 105 characters just in the title.

  Your second post has 128 characters.

  These titles are a posts all by themselves. You can’t tweet with long titles like that.

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  timethief · Member · Apr 11, 2011 at 4:48 am

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  Agreed. The title and the shortlink together must not exceed 140 characters.

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  raincoaster · Member · Apr 11, 2011 at 4:56 am

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  Twitter is not really going to work for you if you have titles that long, UNLESS you use the link shortener and include only the title and link (and even then, you’ll have to edit some of the titles so it’s short enough). You will have to do this manually, not using Publicize.

  Twitter posts are only 140 characters long, period. Ever.

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  neverending1 · Member · Apr 12, 2011 at 11:23 pm

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  My titles have always been long and I’ve never had any problem posting them on Twitter. It’s only in the last week I’ve had problems. Thanks for your responses. Appreciate help and will do as you all suggested. Thank you again,

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  raincoaster · Member · Apr 13, 2011 at 12:02 am

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  Let me put it this way: if your titles get cut off halfway through, you are not using Twitter well. That twitter has made using twitter inefficiently impossible is a GOOD thing.