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Does SMS have to display the href? Could Twitter just replace all URL's with the word 'link' and show the real URL on hover, thereby doing away with URL shorten
by nhebb 16y ago
Does SMS have to display the href? Could Twitter just replace all URL's with the word 'link' and show the real URL on hover, thereby doing away with URL shorteners altogether?
- MWinther 16y agoHover doesn't work well with touch based interaction, which is all the rave these days, I hear. I like the idea of showing them separately somehow, though.
- pyre 16y agoIt only has to display 'link' in SMS. I don't necessarily think that it has to still say 'link' outside of SMS. It makes more sense to just strip the links when going through the SMS gateway, and count all URLs as 4 characters in the '140 characters' limit.
- steveklabnik 16y agoI've typed many a bit.ly link into a web browser directly from my phone. It's easy to do because they're so short.
- jrockway 16y agoBut not as easy as finding the tweet in your twitter client and just clicking.