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What is sad about all this is that Twitter got its start as a sms relay, and sms has long had a system for stitching multiple messages into a singular long one.
by digi_owl 9y ago
What is sad about all this is that Twitter got its start as a sms relay, and sms has long had a system for stitching multiple messages into a singular long one. But rather than adapt that system early, Twitter now insist on dreaming up their own...
- brlewis 9y agoSad, or fortuitous? I don't think even the founders realized this was a feature, not a bug. Big media loves Twitter because it forces everything into sound bites. Twitter would not have taken off having the same functionality as everything else.