Re:How Twitter Could Win Local
by carbonica on Saturday July 23, 2011 @06:18PM
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It also bugs me that @refs count against the limit. When I come across 3 developers having a conversation and I'd like to chime in, I'm already down to <120 chars just by including their names. And since Twitter's model means they can't reasonably find out about my tweet if I don't put their name in it, the more people you want to talk with, the less you can say.
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Yes exactly. In a more broad sense I think all nouns (people, places, urls), should not count against the limit.
You say that like it's a bad thing.
That's because it is.
Going from blog posts and mailing lists to 140 character messages was a real change in communication. Going from 140 characters to 110, because a couple of people have long twitter IDs, is just being a pain in the ass. I already compressed the point of my message to 140 characters, why isn't that good enough?
Mm... Fair point. It just seems like another fundamental change to allow twitter messages to go to >5 people at a time. What would be the limit then? Ten people? A hundred?
Maybe limiting the number of people at all is a bad thing. Who knows.
But messing with their Formula That Works may be a bad thing.