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How Twitter Could Win Local
- kml 15y agoI agree, Twitter has all the right pieces to make something of local.
- graiz 15y agoTranslation. Do what FourSquare should be doing, just don't suck at it.
- dstein 15y agoTwitter's self imposed 140 char limit has limited their options in a lot of ways. Twitter should have dropped that a long time ago. Or at least not count hashtags, geotags, or urls against the 140 limit. This would've opened a lot doors to add more context to tweets.
- _delirium 15y agoGeotags that go via Twitter's geotag mechanism already don't count in the 140-char limit. (I mean the stuff that puts your tweet into results like https://twitter.com/#!/places/936b83f20956cd4c https://twitter.com/#!/places/936b83f20956cd4c)
- arctangent 15y agoThis didn't deserve to be downvoted. The first sentence (while perhaps obvious) is both true and relevant.
- carbonica 15y agoIt also bugs me that @refs count against the limit. When I come across 3 developers having a conversation and I'd like to chime in, I'm already down to <120 chars just by including their names. And since Twitter's model means they can't reasonably find out about my tweet if I don't put their name in it, the more people you want to talk with, the less you can say.
- palish 15y agoYou say that like it's a bad thing.
- carbonica 15y agoThat's because it is. Going from blog posts and mailing lists to 140 character messages was a real change in communication. Going from 140 characters to 110, because a couple of people have long twitter IDs, is just being a pain in the ass. I already compressed the point of my message to 140 characters, why isn't that good enough?
- palish 15y agoMm... Fair point. It just seems like another fundamental change to allow twitter messages to go to >5 people at a time. What would be the limit then? Ten people? A hundred? Maybe limiting the number of people at all is a bad thing. Who knows. But messing with their Formula That Works may be a bad thing.
- dstein 15y agoYes exactly. In a more broad sense I think all nouns (people, places, urls), should not count against the limit.
- tobylane 15y agoThe most important thing about local tweets is that you can refine search results to your country/area. I just tried, on the website and on the iphone app, I couldn't.
- thwarted 15y agoRefining search to your current location seems to work in the twitter android app. I just found out about some senior class trip and a guy looking for a beach with parking in South Lake Tahoe.