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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
by wepple 10y ago
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.
- digi_owl 10y agoTwitter 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.
- vanzard 10y agoLet'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.)
- dmix 10y agoThat'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.
- mattmanser 10y agoNo one read twitter over sms in the first place. It was a quirk of a pivot.
- nl 10y agoI'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...
- rsync 10y agoOh 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 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 ...
- a3n 10y ago> 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?