How to tweet a TED talk

TED is all about ideas worth spreading. And Twitter is the perfect medium to share your favorite TED talks. But I've noticed some people struggling with the long web addresses on TED talk pages, creating tweets that look like this:

So we created a feature that allows you to quickly tweet a talk using a shortened web address which we automatically create. You just enter the text of your tweet in the box below the video player.

We then send you to your Twitter home page with the tweet ready to go, complete with short web address added. You will still be able to edit the tweet before sending if you wish. So for example if you enter the text "Watch.." you'll end up with this tweet all ready to go.

Try it! It's quicker to do, and much more likely to get retweeted. (And if you notice someone sending out a longer TED address, feel free to point them to this page!)

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Interesting addition. I'll add support for this short url for Phreadz - which already lets our users simply share a TEDTalk to Phreadz, Twitter, blogs, Facebook, etc, etc.. Also, it enables viewing of TEDTalks on the iPhone too.

eg: this talk from Gordon Brown : http://phz.in/1uk3

visit the same url on desktop or browser and you you should see that on an iPhone you'll be able to hit a play button to view it on there too ;)

[how I wish I could afford to go to TED! :\ ]

— Kosso
..edit: sorry, that should say: "visit this url on the desktop or iPhone..." ;)

http://phz.in/1uk3

— Kosso
And here was the tweet sent (to the global account) when I sent that Talk to Phreadz : http://twitter.com/phreadz/status/7378213045
— Kosso
Chris -- terrif! Beats tinyurl! TED 2010 countdown in action!
— Dr. G.
amazing! congrats!
— Nathalia Jordão
Great feature!! In my case I always watch talks from podcast, so it's still tricky to link them....
— Alessandro_g
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