Yesterday I downloaded a couple chapters of Joel’s Comm’s Twitter Power book, and I noticed something interesting on that site.

Joel had a link you could click that would send you to Twitter with a tweet already filled in for you. He obviously did that so his visitors could tweet and spread the word about his book promotion, but up until then, I had never seen that strategy used before.

It’s something that’s certainly worth testing. Given Twitter’s non-pitch atmosphere, I’d recommend only trying it to encourage tweets about pure content or freebie giveaways, though.

What do you think? Feel free to test it out by tweeting about this blog post, which should definitely have mass Twitter appeal and does fit the pure content criteria.

Click here to tweet!

(To see what I did, just right-click the link above, select “Copy Link Location” if using Firefox or “Copy Shortcut” if using Internet Explorer, then paste it in notepad or any text editor.

By the way, lots of useful information and resources in Joel’s book. You can see some of the changes I already made to my Twitter profile as a result (you can also connect with me on Twitter there).