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I wonder what they will do once people start using http://the.links http://the.links http://to.write.longer http://to.write.longer http://messages http://messag
by rdancer 10y ago
I wonder what they will do once people start using http://the.links http://the.links http://to.write.longer http://to.write.longer http://messages http://messages
- oneeyedpigeon 10y agoAnyone wanting to bypass the 140 limit is already doing so using an image with text in it. And anyone who spams really long messages using URLs is going to see their followers count drop pretty rapidly.
- JetSpiegel 10y agoI like your optimism
- intoverflow2 10y ago> using an image with text in it. yep.... https://twitter.com/jack/status/684496529621557248 https://twitter.com/jack/status/684496529621557248
- Robadob 10y agoHasn't twitter been replacing long URLs with their own short URLs for a while now? So this change probably won't make a difference, assuming users will still have to hover the link to see the tooltip of the full URL.
- richmarr 10y agoThe short answer is that they won't care much. Twitter's job right now is to figure out how to make their UX less niche and grow market share before they lose ground to the Whatsapps and Snapchats of the world, not to police edge cases that are better managed by simple social norms.
- rdancer 10y agoMy point is that this will become the new social norm, much like now it is the norm to write short cryptic messages that readers may or may not understand.