Twitter Welcome Twitter Friends Sign up for the Building Business Newsletter to get free e-books about saving money and marketing your business. Enter your e-mail address for tips, tools and tactics to grow your business! One of the tough things about Twitter can be keeping your messages short to fit within the 140 character limit. Here are a few quick tips. Change ‘you’ to ‘u’ Change ‘and’ to ‘&’ Change ‘your’ to ‘ur’ Instead of ‘for’ to ‘4’ Change ‘to’ or ‘too’ to ‘2’ Change ‘before’ to ‘b4’ Change ‘favorite’ to ‘fave’ Change ‘great’ to ‘gr8’ Change ‘later’ to ‘l8r’ Change ‘people’ to ‘peeps’ or ‘ppl’ Change ‘are’ to ‘r’ Change ‘please’ to ‘plz’ Change ‘thanks’ to ‘thx’ Change ‘with’ to ‘w’