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For a long time, you had to load 2+ mb of data to see a 140 character tweet. Twitter actually recently fixed this; the tweet text is available in the title now,
by joeyh 10y ago
For a long time, you had to load 2+ mb of data to see a 140 character tweet. Twitter actually recently fixed this; the tweet text is available in the title now, so will be available very early in page load.
Not only does this make twitter usable on dialup again (it was effectively unusable ever since they switched from a simple html page to a massive "application" that you have to re-download every time they deploy), but it lets you search through tweets you've read in the browser history.
Getting this stuff right is not rocket surgery.
- angry-hacker 10y agoI love that they are keen on holding compatibility with archaic SMS but not so much with slower connections.
- milesrout 10y ago1. SMS isn't archaic. 2. 140-char limit isn't about SMS.
- angry-hacker 10y ago1. 1992 in archaic. 2. Officially it was, not it's just stupid and unneccessary.
- milesrout 10y agoSMS isn't archaic any more than writing is archaic. They're both not brand new, and they're both widely used today. VHS is archaic.
- milesrout 10y agoThe 140-character limit was INITIALLY because of SMS, but now it's just the standard format for the medium. The whole point of Twitter is the 140-char limit.