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Does anyone know why they haven't implemented the ability to insert good old-fashioned hyperlinks? Links embedded in the text would save some characters in the
by keenans 16y ago
Does anyone know why they haven't implemented the ability to insert good old-fashioned hyperlinks? Links embedded in the text would save some characters in the message and improve legibility.
- qeorge 16y agoKey point is that it has to fit in 1 SMS message, that's where the whole 140 character thing comes from.
- fredBuddemeyer 16y agoyes but is it worth the illegibility and extra step of shortening? how many of those sms recipients make use of the link by retying it in a browser? if there is much of a use case why not have special handling for it?
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- briansmith 16y agoIt only has to fit in a single SMS message if the tweet is being consumed over SMS. There's no reason to do link shortening in other user interfaces.
- joshu 16y agoTweets already diverge from what will fit in an SMS. For example, 140 chars of unicode won't fit.
- jmhodges 16y agoWe go by bytes, not chars.
- chaosmachine 16y agoThat's incorrect, Twitter goes by characters. I actually wrote an app to exploit this loophole: http://tweetcompressor.com/ http://tweetcompressor.com/
- spazmaster 16y agoAlso SMS fits 160 chars, not 140.
- Kilimanjaro 16y agoI would like to know the percentage of tweets sent as SMS.
- qq66 16y agoBecause they retain control of the content when they use an in-house link-shortener.