Three Tools to Start a Twitter Petition

Perhaps you have a political concern or religious position that you want to go public with. Or, maybe you have a non-profit or small business that you would like to build with a Twitter petition. Done right correctly doing a petition via Twitter can lead to massive attention for your cause.

If you're the creative type its even possible to build a business through the process of a petition to Twitter.

Here are 4 sleek tools to start a petition on Twitter with.

* Act.ly

* TinyPetition

* Twitition

The landing page for Act.ly provides you with four options.

1. Start A Petition: Enter a Twitter USER ID and then make a brief statement of what should be done.

2. Petitions Catching Fire: These are previously entered petitions that are getting attention by others retweeting their contents.

3. Who's hot in the seat?: Find out who's being petitioned against more than all other people.

4. Smokin recruiters: Find out who's recommending the most people to Act.

This seems like a very sleek and easy to use system at first glance. Only you will be able to determine if that is the case for you.

Next, let's look at the qualities of TinyPetition.com

To me, this looks very easy.

The front page provides you with four options.

1. Your Email Address

2. Petition Title (I recommend this be formatted in SEO style if possible.)

3. Petition ShortName: This is a name that will trigger the petition when searched. It looks like the system auto defaults to using the last word of the petition title. I'm not to sure how helpful that is.

4. Petition description: You now have 5000 characters to build your petition within. That sounds doable to me.

Finally, let's review Twitition.com

In my opinion the user interface for submitting a new petition is not as clear with this product as it is with the others. However, you are able to review other petitions much easier here than on the other two applications.

Really, submitting petitions here isn't difficult it's just different.

First click the blue button on the top that says "Create Yours"

Then enter a title and description for the petition you wish to create. Select create, and you're done. I think I like this tool more than the others simply because it gives you so many ways to navigate the other petitions that are part of their system.

Here are the different options available...

* Most popular

* Latest

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Whatever you decide I highly recommend that you start a Twitter petition as it is an affective way of driving traffic to your cause.