One of my pet peeves about Twitter is that conceptually, it hasn't embraced the fact that most of its users don't Tweet by SMS. I'm all about using a restricte

One of my pet peeves about Twitter is that conceptually, it hasn't embraced the fact that most of its users don't Tweet by SMS. I'm all about using a restricted message format to encourage spontaneity and focus the message, but if I want to @reference more than like three people I have very little room for what I want to say - and if I have a URL as well, I have almost none. Keep the system as-is for SMS-based tweets, but for the rest of us don't count @names or URLs in the message length.