Constructing tweets that people read

When Jakob Nielsen puts his mind to understanding how to gain the most effectiveness from a Tweet it is worth reading his conclusions, one of which is that Twitter time passes 10 times faster than email time (i.e. you have a tenth of the time to grab attention)

It looks to me that most of the rules of writing attention and search engine grabbing e-mail subjects also apply to Twitter.

Unlike Nielsen, I cannot promise to use his rules when writing own Tweets. Dick Stroud