Tuesday Tools: Using Excel for Tweets

Talking to an author friend about tweets I found out an ingenious way to make a tweet from an excel spreadsheet. In the world of awesome sauce and I can do everything and be everywhere this was ingenious.

Here is where I dispel people -- when I don't schedule my tweets, they don't happen. So what's worse? Not tweeting at all or scheduling? I can tell you that when I don't tweet it's not good. I think of witty things at 2 AM, but you're not going to be awake at that hour to see it are you? Not unless you're a late night writer like me. So, I schedule my tweets.

What my friend did was take an excel spreadsheet and in column A created a formula. In column B she writes her tweet and the Characters remaining show up in column A. Here is what the formula looks like:

=$B$1-LEN(B4)

So let me show you what it looks like:

ACTION ITEM: Try the code if you want to keep track of tweets!