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Love it! But I would be afraid that somebody will figure out how to make a 13 character only twitter clone. This is a race that you can not win. Sooner or late
by seven 17y ago
Love it!
But I would be afraid that somebody will figure out how to make a 13 character only twitter clone. This is a race that you can not win. Sooner or later some genius will make a service that allows you to broadcast nothing at all. Probably this service would even be free!1!.. killing all the other services in no time.
- mixmax 17y agoThat's a very good point. But the scalability issues are easier to adress when you approach zero characters.
- messel 17y agoDamn phone, small keys big thumbs. I shall make amends for this terrible down voting accident post haste (can't seem to fix it).
- qeorge 17y agoYou can't get great status updates in 13 characters!
- mixmax 17y agoThere's also the problem of availability of unique status updates, the lower your character count the fewer unique status updates there will be. If you launch a service with only 1 character there will only be 25 possible status updates. People want to be unique, but they're also lazy, so it's a compromise between the two. I think 14 characters strikes the balance.
- streety 17y ago25? Is that a typo or have I missed something? Anyway, what's wrong with using numbers? Upper and lowercase? Unicode?