Get more out of Twitter: up to 200 letters

September 2009: Maxitweet has been updated...

You wanted more control over the appearance of your maxitweet. Now we've given it to you.

Starting with the barely perceptable Level One: it will save you just those few extra characters you sometimes need to say what you want to in a tweet. Your tweet makes sense, without abbreviation, and your followers hardly notice the difference.

Mild compression continues to about Level Five, where the maxitweet starts to look a bit more "colorful".

And so on, all the way up to the highest Level -Ten: quite frankly, at this level of compression your tweet looks like it has been through a blender. But the choices are yours ...

Feel free to use maxitweet as much as you like - for business, retweeting, information sharing and fun. Maxitweet is, and remains, a free service. Please tweet your comment to @maxitweet . You can also e-mail us: editormaxitweet.com .

Next, you may want to try out our XX5 tweets for very long tweets, up to 500 characters. They look different: XX5 tweets are in code and your followers read them on www.maxitweet.com/x . You even have the option to protect XX5 tweets with a password, so only your friends, staff or subscribers can read them! Try sending an XX5 tweet now or learn more.

If a follower has trouble reading your tweets because they are on an older computer, please direct them to www.maxitweet.com/read . Your tweet will appear there as originally written - plus: we show them how to correct this.