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Syntax - Tasty Web Development Treats

Short Form Content with Tiktok, Reels, Shorts, Tweets

Syntax - Tasty Web Development Treats

Wes Bos

Tech News, News, Technology

4.91.2K Ratings

🗓️ 14 November 2022

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Summary

In this Hasty Treat, Scott and Wes talk about creating short form content for TikTok, Reels, Shorts, and tweets. What are some of the benefits and limitations of creating for vertical video, and what tools are they using to create videos. Sentry - Sponsor If you want to know what’s happening with your code, track errors and monitor performance with Sentry. Sentry’s Application Monitoring platform helps developers see performance issues, fix errors faster, and optimize their code health. Cut your time on error resolution from hours to minutes. It works with any language and integrates with dozens of other services. Syntax listeners new to Sentry can get two months for free by visiting Sentry.io and using the coupon code TASTYTREAT during sign up. Freshbooks - Sponsor Get a 30 day free trial of Freshbooks at freshbooks.com/syntax Show Notes 00:23 Welcome 01:39 Sponsor: Sentry 02:40 Sponsor: Freshbooks 04:05 Short form content intro WesBos.com/tips Wes on TikTok LevelUp Tutorials on TikTok Scott Stolinski on TikTok 07:16 The good and the bad of short form content 17:13 Repurposing content 18:36 Content that works 21:12 Tips for making short form content 24:19 Limitations of short form content 31:49 Tools for editing Screenflow Descript Detail.co Tweet us your tasty treats Scott’s Instagram LevelUpTutorials Instagram Wes’ Instagram Wes’ Twitter Wes’ Facebook Scott’s Twitter Make sure to include @SyntaxFM in your tweets

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Monday! Monday! Monday! Open wide dev fans! Get ready! To stuff your face with

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JavaScript CSS! Node modules! Barbecue tips! Get workflow! Break dancing! Soft skills!

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Web development! The hastiest! The courageous! The tastiest! Web development

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treats! Coming in hot! Here is Wes Barakuda! Boss and Scott El Torro Lugo!

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Tolinsky!

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Welcome to syntax on this Monday hasty treat. We're going to be talking about

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short form content, tick tocks and Instagrams and YouTube shorts and all of these

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new vertical video short form content platforms and a little bit about our

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creation ideas how we're making things for this type of medium but also what works

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and what doesn't. My name is Scott Tolinsky. I'm a developer from Denver.

0:54.0

With me as always is Wes Boss. Hey everybody! I'm excited to talk about this. It's

1:02.0

kind of, Scott and I kind of just got into it at the exact same time and it's been

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fun to sort of figure out. It's really been funny because I think it was just

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about the exact same day you were like just started your short form content

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idea plan and I was like we just had a conversation just yesterday with me

1:21.0

and our marketing person, Caitlin and just like let's come up with a plan.

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We just sat down and came up with a plan for it and then literally the next

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day we talked and shockingly we had very similar plans which I don't

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know if that's to be expected or not but yeah here we are. This episode is sponsored

1:40.0

by two amazing companies, Century and Freshbooks. Century is the best place

1:45.0

to see all your errors and exceptions. Let's say you watch some TikTok

1:49.0

video and a YouTube coder says hey do this thing with react hooks and next

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