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Extending Tweet to a Larger Audience

You tweet but when people reply they are replying to you, not your tweet. There is no such thing as commenting a tweet. Your tweet must be replied in real time before you tweet another subject. Otherwise a reply may be mistaken for a different tweet. Unfortunately when you tweet not all of your followers are listening, and not many people will be searching for your tweet. Thus, your tweet audience is limited. It is the nature of Twitter that your tweets will be left behind after some time.

On the other hand, your listening followers may want to respond to your tweet but choose to keep quiet instead. One of the reason is that they don't want to be associated with your tweet personally. Or, they just don't want to make you feel bad with their responses. Thus, you don't get good interactive audience.

Let extend your tweet with blindtalk. What is a blindtalk? Check the website. A blindtalk is a short message posted anonymously. Anyone can respond to a blindtalk also anonymously. You don't have to register to use the service, you just blindtalk straight away. Once you blindtalk, click on the status link to go to the blindtalk status page. There is a tweet link that will bring you a page where you can copy a prepared tweet for your blindtalk. Copy and tweet it.

Now your tweet will have a link to your blindtalk. Your followers now will have a chance to respond to your tweet anonymously. And your blindtalk will also be published in the website where more people will have a chance to respond to your blindtalk which is also your tweet.

Blindtalk will also be left behind after some time. But responses to a blindtalk will resurrect it from time to time. The responses themselves may also be responded which will create a structure of responses. All related responses will resurrect the original blindtalk. It is something that Twitter doesn't provide.

Your tweet is now extended to a larger audience with blindtalk.

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