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I agree with you that the 140 is iconic and it's probably not a good idea to abandon it. What's more, I feel like there was a very simple, elegant solution to t
by glenstein 9y ago
I agree with you that the 140 is iconic and it's probably not a good idea to abandon it. What's more, I feel like there was a very simple, elegant solution to this all along. It was to allow long-form text as a type of embedded media, treating it the same as video and pictures.
That way you don't lose the iconic 140 characters thing, and you don't have any problem to solve by making weird compromises where the user names or media URLs don't count toward the 140, blurring the lines of what 140 means and losing the "creativity loves constraints" factor.
- tajen 9y agoAnd reversely, it's incredibly creative for Trump to attempt to fit the entire USA diplomacy in 140 characters.
- endless1234 9y ago>What's more, I feel like there was a very simple, elegant solution to this all along. It was to allow long-form text as a type of embedded media, treating it the same as video and pictures. Indeed, especially as people have been already doing this by sharing longer posts as pictures of text
- rayalez 9y agoArticles with good titles/descriptions/images are already beautifully embedded as cards. So having a medium(or any other) blog that automatically posts links to twitter is the perfect solution to this, I think.
- glenstein 9y agoI was even thinking things like links to Twitlonger and Pastebin could be used for embedded text, the same way twitter knows how to handle imgur & youtube links and embed their content with tweets.
- macspoofing 9y ago> What's more, I feel like there was a very simple, elegant solution to this all along. It was to allow long-form text as a type of embedded media, treating it the same as video and pictures. How is that elegant?
- was_boring 9y agoPeople often using the word "elegant" when they actually mean "my preferred." It helps give credence to the solution.
- amelius 9y agoBetter solution is to let users solve a complicated CAPTCHA when they want to tweet longer messages. That way, there is no social pressure to make long tweets (no reasonable person can pressure you to solve boring CAPTCHAs), while it's still there if you need it. Or, phrased differently, they should make it harder to tweet longer messages.