{"id":26496,"date":"2014-01-14T15:36:16","date_gmt":"2014-01-14T21:36:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/publicityhound.com\/?p=26496"},"modified":"2025-11-10T22:39:04","modified_gmt":"2025-11-10T22:39:04","slug":"use-a-short-numbered-list-to-draw-attention-to-a-tweet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/marketing\/social-media\/use-a-short-numbered-list-to-draw-attention-to-a-tweet\/","title":{"rendered":"Use a short, numbered list to draw attention to a tweet"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Here&#8217;s a clever way to draw people&#8217;s attention to a tweet, particularly if they&#8217;re on a platform like Tweetdeck or Hootsuite, importing several streams, and seeing dozens of tweets on their screen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Create a very short list and give each item its own line, like this tweet from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.Twitter.com\/jaredbkeller\" target=\"_blank\">@jarredbkeller<\/a>&nbsp;which immediately caught my attention because of all that white space:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2014\/01\/jaredbkellertweet.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"234\" src=\"https:\/\/www.publicityhound.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/jaredbkellertweet-300x234.jpg\" alt=\"jaredbkellertweet\" class=\"wp-image-26499\" title=\"Numbered list in a tweet\" srcset=\"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2014\/01\/jaredbkellertweet-300x234.jpg 300w, https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2014\/01\/jaredbkellertweet.jpg 310w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He used only 121 of the 140 characters Twitter allows, leaving room for retweets.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Speaking of Google+, I posted a a link this morning to <a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20230925025455\/http:\/\/www.gplusexpertise.com\/2012\/10\/text-formatting-on-google-posts.html\" target=\"_blank\">a Google+ Cheat Sheet<\/a> that explains the three ways to format your text: boldface, italics and strikethrough.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If you aren&#8217;t formatting your Google+ posts, start! Short on time? Format the most important ones that you want to stand out. Adding headlines in bold type really draws readers&#8217; eyes, helps scanners, and pulls more people into your post:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/plus.google.com\/117787139708651698854\/posts\/6uaJvEsvN5Z\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.publicityhound.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/Google-Plus-Cheat-Sheet-253x300.jpg\" alt=\"Wanted: Google Plus Cheat Sheet\" class=\"wp-image-26502\" title=\"Google+ Cheat Sheet\"\/><\/a><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Do you format social media posts any other way? If so, share in the Comment section.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s a clever way to draw people&#8217;s attention to a tweet, particularly if they&#8217;re on a platform like Tweetdeck or Hootsuite, importing several streams, and seeing dozens of tweets on their screen. Create a very short list and give each item its own line, like this tweet from @jarredbkeller&nbsp;which immediately caught my attention because of\u2026&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/marketing\/social-media\/use-a-short-numbered-list-to-draw-attention-to-a-tweet\/\" class=\"rmlink\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","iawp_total_views":4,"wds_primary_category":638,"footnotes":""},"categories":[638,683],"tags":[645,255],"class_list":{"0":"post-26496","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-social-media","7":"category-twitter","8":"tag-free-social-media-tools","9":"tag-google-plus","10":"entry"},"featured_image_src":null,"featured_image_src_square":null,"author_info":{"display_name":"Joan Stewart","author_link":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/author\/jstewart\/"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26496","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26496"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26496\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43315,"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26496\/revisions\/43315"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26496"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26496"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26496"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}