Thanks to Tony, Nick and Danny for the helpful suggestions.
bit.ly appears to be great but it's not recognised in Hootsuite - which has it's own shrinker (not quite so shrinky as bit.ly though)
Copying and pasting from a rtf file into Hootsuite keeps the 3 line haiku format if you view it on a mobile, but not through Hootsuite itself or through my Firefox browser.
Anyway, I am now loading up Hootsuite with haiku and images scheduled for a daily punt into Twitter and Facebook.
Best, Andrew
On 25 Apr 2017, at 08:57, Nick Clarey wrote:
> bit.ly is a very popular URL shortener, though I've not used it in anger for a few years.
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> Try holding down the control or shift key and pressing return in your Twitter client or web browser to get a newline character.
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> Best regards,
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> On 25 April 2017 at 08:50, Danny Birchall <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> >> The accepted wisdom seems to be to break the lines with a slash.
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> Most twitter clients including web seem to fully support line breaks & that seems to be the way most people do haiku on twitter. See eg:
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> From: Museums Computer Group [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Tony Crockford
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> On 25 Apr 2017, at 08:10, ANDREW STUCK <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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> 2. Two of the walkshops are all about composing and writing haiku - those nifty 3 line poems with limited syllables. In the run up to the Week, we have been asked to Tweet a (Tree) haiku a day, but can you tell us how we can retain the three line format in a Tweet? e.g.
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> A 3 line format / Each poetry line beneath / The one line before // #treeweek
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