I launched a side project the other day to let you post longer messages to Twitter. You write whatever you want and then it updates your twitter with a summary

I launched a side project the other day to let you post longer messages to Twitter. You write whatever you want and then it updates your twitter with a summary and short url to the entire message. I have it up as lngtwt, but I think I'm going to launch it officially as big.ly. http://lngtwt.com http://lngtwt.com My particular use case is that I often want to respond to someone on twitter with a longer message and I don't have convenient access to their email or want my response to be public. This comes up all the time in support. There will be a bug that is being discussed publicly on twitter and I want to send those people a solution in a way that anyone following the discussion can see. Here are two examples: http://twitter.com/tonystubblebine/statuses/2349633865 http://twitter.com/tonystubblebine/statuses/2349633865 http://twitter.com/tonystubblebine/statuses/2244340758 http://twitter.com/tonystubblebine/statuses/2244340758 One thing I like about small side projects is that it lets you start with fresh code, which is helpful for testing out plugins. This one uses the Rails twitter-auth module, which was really easy to setup.