bit.ly is a very popular URL shortener, though I've not used it in anger for a few years.

Try holding down the control or shift key and pressing return in your Twitter client or web browser to get a newline character.

Best regards,

Nick

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.

 

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:

 

https://twitter.com/su_nami_/status/856665181312524288

 

Cheers

Danny

 

 

 

From: Museums Computer Group [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Tony Crockford
Sent: 25 April 2017 08:45
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Re: [MCG] Shortening urls / Formatting in Twitter / Social media scheduling

 

On 25 Apr 2017, at 08:10, ANDREW STUCK <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

 

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.

 

A 3 line format

Each poetry line beneath 

The one line before

 

The accepted wisdom seems to be to break the lines with a slash.

 

e.g.

 

A 3 line format / Each poetry line beneath / The one line before // #treeweek

 

see:

https://twitter.com/dailyku?lang=en

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