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It 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 cha
by carbonica 15y ago
It 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.