Have you ever wanted to Tweet more than 140 characters? Do you want to post a random bit of text but don’t have a blog? Want to send a message to friends but make it more private than email?

Check out ShortText.com for a solution.

It allows you to post a block of text and it returns a URL that you can point people to. If you want to make it private then you can add a secret key (which hides it from search engines as well as anyone else who doesn’t have the key).

No signup, no complications. Though it is ad supported. If you want an ad free version (that lets you go back and edit your posting, as well as select the URL that is used for the link) then it’s $2 per year for the URLs.

While I try to keep my tweets short and to the point I particularly like their API and Firefox plugin that let you extend the functionality…