I have created a new service called TweetThisText.com. It is a service to help tweet sections of a text that are too long for twitter’s character limit and don’t otherwise have a dedicated url that makes sense to link to. Let’s say there’s a website with a paragraph buried in the middle that you would like to quote in a twitter conversation. Instead of linking to the entire web page and trying to explain “check out the 3rd paragraph from the bottom…”, you can share just the applicable text with TweetThisText.com.

This can be accomplished in one of two ways. First, you can use the TweetThisText bookmark button (or “bookmarklet”). By dragging the bookmarklet from the tweetthistext.com homepage to your bookmark bar, you can select the text to tweet – whether it’s a few words, a paragraph, or an entire page – and click the bookmarklet. The text and source url are instantly copied to a new page and you are redirected to twitter to send the formatted tweet – which will have a preview of the quoted text, and a link to the created page.

A second method is to simply highlight the text you want to share and copy and paste into the form field at the tweetthistext.com home page and enter in the source url (optionally). Then you can hit the “Tweet This Text” form button which will also create a page for the text and prepare a tweet.

The first paragraph of this blog post would get tweeted as:

“I have created a new service called TweetThisText.com. It is a service to help tweet sections of a text th…” http://tweetthistext.com/112

People seeing the tweet that are interested in reading more can click through to read the rest of the text.

You don’t need an account to use the service. It is a simple idea but I hope some people can find it useful. Check it out at http://www.tweetthistext.com!