Saturday 16 January 2010

Limerick Verse Twitter, Tweet and Textspeak

How to use Twitter to enter the Valentine Day verse competition run by Hallmark Cards UK.

This competition is great fun as people send in their entries by Twitter. The 140 character limit makes it pretty difficult to write a traditionally structured limerick, and it is necessary to use "textspeak". Here is an example:

There was a young lady big hitter
Who claimed she was never a quitter.
She stood on her head
Until she grew red,
Then texted all about it on Twitter!

You have to include @hallmarkcards in the tweet so it is an exercise in ingenuity to get everything in.

@hallmarkcards Thr ws a yng ldy big hitterWho sed she ws nvr a quitter
She stood on er eadUntil she grw redThn txtd all about it on Twitter


Tips and tricks to help are available from my web site http://www.clarkscript.com/how-to-twitter-limericks.html

It is free to have a go so join in and you might win a luxury holiday for two as a prize. As a judge in the Hallmark Cards verse competition I will be looking for romantic and/or humorous verse entries. Traditional limerick structure is not essential but it might help.

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