Apparently two downvoters disagreed with me, so can you point out any sentences at all that you find useful or relevant?<p>I didn&#x27;t read it all the way through but guide seemed completely irrelevant to tweeting.  Obviously reducing tweet length is important for everyone, and a hard skill to master: this guide doesn&#x27;t include anything that can be used.<p>In particular the abbreviations don&#x27;t seem current.  Then there are whole sections of advice like this:<p>&gt;&#x27; for feet<p>&gt;&quot;for inches<p>&gt;% for percent<p>&gt;@ for at<p>&gt;should be written &quot;feet,&quot; &quot;inches,&quot; &quot;percent,&quot; &quot;at,&quot; etc.<p>Which is obviously literally the opposite advice of that which you would use for tweeting.<p>Or look at:<p>&gt;For example, a press correspondent might ,first write this dispatch:<p>&gt;&quot;The enemy has not yet been met or even seen on account of the entanglements thrown up during the night,&quot; etc.<p>&gt;Revised for the cable, this dispatch might read:<p>&gt;&quot;Enemy unmet unseen account entanglements upthrown night.&quot;<p>They say &quot;upthrown&quot; instead of &quot;thrown up&quot; because upthrown is 1 word but &quot;thrown up&quot; is 2.  The words they omit are ones that editors might put back in.  But it&#x27;s not something you can tweet! (Account instead of &quot;on account of&quot;.)  If you tweeted &quot;Enemy unmet unseen account entanglements upthrown night&quot; absolutely nobody would understand what you mean.<p>The whole guide does not really translate in any way to tweeting.  I think perhaps my downvoters thought that I was being too literal, that I shouldn&#x27;t expect it to -- but why not?  Brevity is the underlying style focus in each, so you would think that a lot of the guide would translate!  It simply doesn&#x27;t.<p>Being extremely brief and using specific techniques to be briefer is an important skill used in both telegrams and tweeting, and the advice I read here doesn&#x27;t in any way translate into tweeting.  You can&#x27;t use any of it.