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Re:What Twitter Really Is by anonjon on Tuesday March 30, 2010 @12:38PM (#1229536)
okay this does match up with practice.

However, this makes it a poorly designed link sharing system. I never know where the link that i'm clicking resolves to, and it isn't really optimized for parsing the links out of the message (as a developer i've got to do a regex or something to pull the http:// garbage out of the message). Why isn't there a seperate field for links?

Re:What Twitter Really Is by dotcoma on Wednesday March 31, 2010 @01:59AM (#1231025)
I don't know :) I'm not a twitter fan myself - I actually wish del.icio.us had been designed better from a social and interaction point of view.