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They would be very inconvenient to type on the traditional cell phone though.
by ansgri 14y ago
They would be very inconvenient to type on the traditional cell phone though.
- thenonsequitur 14y agoWell it doesn't have to be a symbol, just something that would not be likely to start a real tweet. Just as an example let's say "q", followed by a space, followed by the command with the appropriate number of parameters, e.g., "q get username". That would allow otherwise-reasonable tweets that are currently being mis-interpreted ("get better" vs. "q get better"). That's just an example. There are other ways around the problem too without making things too inconvenient on a smartphone user. And sure it's possible someone somewhere will want to write a real tweet that says "q get better", but that's far far less likely than someone somewhere wanting to tweet "get better". And the point is that allowing a non-trivial portion of the tweet-space overlap with the command-space is a bad decision. A trivial overlap (like "q get better") would have been a much better decision.