If you’re a Twitter user, you may have heard of a web service called TinyPaste.

Twitter messages can consist of up to 140 characters. But what if what you’re trying to say takes more than 140?…That’s where TinyPaste comes in.

Just go to TinyPaste.com and type in your longer message…You’ll then be given a short URL that you can place into your Twitter account. Anyone that clicks on that URL will see your longer message.

TinyPaste also has a cool Firefox extension that you can download. You can highlight any text on a webpage and instantly receive a TinyPaste URL for it.

To install the extension, go to TinyPaste.com and go to the top-right corner of the page:

 

 

After you’ve got the extension installed, highlight some text on a webpage and right-click on it…..Then choose “TinyPaste selected text” from the context menu:

 

 

You’ll immediately receive your URL, which you can then copy to your clipboard and paste into your Twitter account (or anywhere for that matter):

 

 

If you click on the “Go to URL” button, you’ll be taken to the actual URL where the text is stored:

 

 

By default, the URL that you are selecting the text from is sent to TinyPaste…If you’d like to disable that, you can do so in the Options: