XX5: Learn more .....

Use XX5 tweets when you want to send a Twitter message longer than about 180 letters. Remember, for tweets of 140-200 letters, regular maxitweets are ideal because they can be read without decoding.

You should be able to fit at least 400 - 500 letters, depending on content.

Click the button when you are ready, or to see if you are still within Twitter's 140 character limit. The character count, letters saved and characters remaining are all clearly displayed. The XX5 tweet will look something like this:

Tell your regular readers or subscribers that you are using XX5 coding and send them the link where they can read your tweets:
www.maxitweet.com/x

You can also include this link inside your XX5 tweet. It uses 19 characters.

You can protect XX5 tweets with a password so only selected contacts or subscribers can read them. This is very handy for paid subscriptions or sensitive information. You can choose your own password. You have the option to change it whenever you wish.

Pick any combination of letters & numbers. Passwords are cAse-sensitive. The maximum length is 7.
Click the button after typing your chosen password.

Paste the XX5 you want to read in the box on www.maxitweet.com/x and click the button. The original message will now appear.

If it is password protected, a message will appear reminding you to enter the password that the sender should have given you. Enter it to read the tweet. Passwords are cAse-sensitive.

Some examples of how others are using XX5 tweets

A good XX5 example is @Chef_Tips. 500 characters is plenty for the recipes here; there is also enough room for the (un-coded) dish name. Check out the recipe for Mushroom Cappucino or a delicious Apple Mint Sauce for lamb.

Recipes are nearly impossible to pass on by regular 140 character tweet, though some have tried.The best known recipe-twitterer is Maureen Evans from Belfast. She tweets several recipes a day as @cookbook. See if you can decipher them!

How do we fit nearly 500 letters in the Twitter 140-character limit?

The XX5 software reads your tweet and codes whole words into single characters. Just like regular maxitweets, these are Unicode characters which are fully supported by Twitter. For example, the word "treasure" is allocated to the character ☥ . Clever scripting ensures that all words and letter combinations are captured and encoded into Unicode. The Decoding script reverses the process and turns ☥ back into "treasure". If sometimes the coded tweet looks like a translation into Chinese, that is because many thousands of Unicode characters are set aside for Chinese glyphs. XX5 tweets have no meaning in any language until they are decoded.
Don't worry if some of the characters look as if they are not being recognized. They will all be transmitted in full by Twitter and your followers will read the XX5 perfectly! [ on: www.maxitweet.com/x ]