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French term or phrase:	titres
English translation:	titles
Entered by:	Stephanie Ezrol

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23:49 Oct 30, 2011

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Marketing - Other / Writing for Twitter and other Social media

French term or phrase: titres

This is part of a corporate white paper on Customer Relations Management (CRM) and the Social media aimed at potential customers for the company's CRM services

Evitez d’écrire des articles trop longs ou peu aérés.
Simplifiez l’expérience de l’utilisateur, sans toutefois verser dans la futilité.
Pensez à rédiger des titres de moins de 100 caractères...

I don't think titre is this context means title or headline. Is anyone familiar with titre being some form of modern slang in this context? And what would be the English equivalent?

Stephanie Ezrol KudoZ activity Questions: 129 (1 open) (13 closed without grading) Answers: 574 United States
Local time: 02:07

titles

Explanation:
I see nothing against, indeed lots for, the use of "title".

A couple of examples realting to Twitter :

http://www.seoconsultants.com/twitter/titles/

"2009-03-08 - The Twitter Tweet Title appears differently depending on where you are viewing it. I'll be discussing one specific area that is of high value to all of us from a marketing perspective and that is the <title> that is displayed in your Tweets. Read more on Optimizing Twitter Titles..."

http://sphinn.com/story/104548

http://www.v7n.com/forums/social-network-marketing/169698-to...

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I don't tweet either. This old bird too scared of falling off her perch! ;-)

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Nikki Scott-Despaigne
Local time: 08:07

Grading comment

Thanks a lot, and thanks to everyone.
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Summary of answers provided

4 +1

titles

Nikki Scott-Despaigne

3 +2

entries/posts

David Hollywood

sentences/expression/phrases

Kiwiland Bear

Discussion entries: 1

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7 mins confidence:

sentences/expression/phrases

Explanation:
Or could even be paragraphs if the character limit wasn't so low.

My suggestion actually comes from my native Russian which, in the times long gone, borrowed the same usage from French. So no, I don't think it's a modern slang, more likely an old one.

Kiwiland Bear
New Zealand
Local time: 18:07
Works in field
Native speaker of:

Russian

14 mins confidence:

peer agreement (net): +2

entries/posts

Explanation:
my ideas

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or: messages

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Twitter is an interesting and practical real-time messaging system for groups and ... All Twitter messages are limited to 140 characters, so each ...
Twitter - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TwitterJump to Messages‎: To repost a message from another Twitter user, and share it with one's own followers, the retweet function is symbolized by "RT" in the ...

David Hollywood
Local time: 03:07
Native speaker of:

English
PRO pts in category: 24

1 hr confidence:

peer agreement (net): +1

titles

Nikki Scott-Despaigne
Local time: 08:07
Native speaker of:

English
PRO pts in category: 12

Grading comment

Thanks a lot, and thanks to everyone.

Notes to answerer

Asker: Thanks alot. One of your links linked to the following: "As I scan (VERY quickly) down my list of Tweets to see what I want to click on, I may only see the first one or two words of each Tweet. If there’s a link there (even a shortened one), you’re wasting valuable real estate on a link that’s nowhere near as descriptive as a solid title (message) would be." which certainly seems to say that a title is a message -- since the total number of characters is 140 I think. I don't Tweet. So thanks again.

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