rel="shortlink" - URL shortening that doesn't hurt the internet

Re:rel="shortlink" - URL shortening that doesn't hurt the in... by JimmyL on Sunday August 16, 2009 @11:14PM (#767264)

One of my pet peeves about Twitter is that conceptually, it hasn't embraced the fact that most of its users don't Tweet by SMS.

I'm all about using a restricted message format to encourage spontaneity and focus the message, but if I want to @reference more than like three people I have very little room for what I want to say - and if I have a URL as well, I have almost none.

Keep the system as-is for SMS-based tweets, but for the rest of us don't count @names or URLs in the message length.

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Re:rel="shortlink" - URL shortening that doesn't hurt the in... by derefr on Sunday August 16, 2009 @11:55PM (#767322)

So what happens to the "unrestricted" tweets when they're received over SMS?

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Re:rel="shortlink" - URL shortening that doesn't hurt the in... by JimmyL on Monday August 17, 2009 @12:19AM (#767351)

Send them as two sequential SMS messages, or an MMS message (user's choice). Pretty much anyone who is receiving tweets on their phone has unlimited received texts anyways.

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Re:rel="shortlink" - URL shortening that doesn't hurt the in... by Titanous on Monday August 17, 2009 @10:16AM (#768147)

The same thing that happens to DMs. They get split up.

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