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Re:Snowden: Hack of an NSA server is not unprecedented, publ... by wepple on Tuesday August 16, 2016 @09:22AM (#12297287)
if we're lucky, twitter will do what they did with the hashtag and other things when they realised their users needs were 'inventing' new features.

The 1/n 2/n n/n tweets is a huge indicator of a feature need. Of course, that's going to dilute their original value proposition of short direct messages.

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Re:Snowden: Hack of an NSA server is not unprecedented, publ... by digi_owl on Tuesday August 16, 2016 @10:31AM (#12297685)
Twitter started out as an SMS repeater.

SMS has for ages, thanks to Nokia, had the capability of merging multiple messages into a single large one.

Twitter could just make use of this and save themselves a whole lot of grief.

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Re:Snowden: Hack of an NSA server is not unprecedented, publ... by vanzard on Tuesday August 16, 2016 @11:17AM (#12297998)
Let's be serious. No one reads twitter over sms anymore. This isn't at all the reason twitter continues to limit to 140 characters.

(Before some smartass replies "I do read over sms", well even without sms merging, twitter could still split a tweet into multiple sms. 99.9999% of their userbase wouldn't care.)

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Re:Snowden: Hack of an NSA server is not unprecedented, publ... by dmix on Tuesday August 16, 2016 @12:40PM (#12298632)
That's not relevant to the OPs point. The point is that even SMS clients were capable of merging multiple messages together, yet Twitter has still failed to do so. So whether or not they were SMS doesn't matter.
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Re:Snowden: Hack of an NSA server is not unprecedented, publ... by mattmanser on Tuesday August 16, 2016 @01:21PM (#12298959)
No one read twitter over sms in the first place. It was a quirk of a pivot.
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Re:Snowden: Hack of an NSA server is not unprecedented, publ... by a3n on Tuesday August 16, 2016 @03:38PM (#12300018)
> value proposition of short direct messages.

"Value proposition" or stubbornly clinging to something that users do their best to work around?

Why not just cut to the chase and make this thing essentially broadcast email, or more generally yet another blogging platform?

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Re:Snowden: Hack of an NSA server is not unprecedented, publ... by nl on Tuesday August 16, 2016 @01:11PM (#12298900)
I've said it before: Amazing that it was Instagram that copied the idea of Snapchat stories.

Facebook has a complete "Post" blogging mechanism.

Twitter is soon going to stop counting urls in the 140 characters.

One of these things is not like the others...

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Re:Snowden: Hack of an NSA server is not unprecedented, publ... by rsync on Tuesday August 16, 2016 @03:37PM (#12300016)
Oh By Codes[1] are 4096 characters long and can be used, inside a tweet, as a tweet expander. No URL/link necessary.

[1] https://0x.co

edit: well, not everyone knows what an Oh By Code is yet, so for now I suppose the link format is best, but eventually, just the code itself will suffice ...

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