Parisista » @replies http://www.khaitan.org/blog 2. Etymology: Sanskrit. Supplementary information usually at the end of a writing Thu, 09 Feb 2012 15:40:07 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 en hourly 1 Twitter should count out @replies and @user from status text http://www.khaitan.org/blog/2008/07/twitter-should-count-out-replies-and-user-from-status-text/ http://www.khaitan.org/blog/2008/07/twitter-should-count-out-replies-and-user-from-status-text/#comments Fri, 18 Jul 2008 07:00:04 +0000 indus http://www.khaitan.org/blog/?p=238 Twitter messages are limited to 140 bytes (not characters, if you are multi-byte speaker!). However, a lot of messages now carry the usernames, either for @replies or for simply refering to @user in the message. As the twitter userbase grows, people would start running out of shorter names like @t, @ev or @1ndus and eventually go the email route having_my_long_name@emailhost.com.

The day is not far when twitter screen names would @mylongname2008. This one takes 10% of the text from 140 available.

At the minimal twitter should count out the @replies and @user from the 140 characters and make that part of the meta-data. 

The API can handle this transparently, It just requires adding a new field called to-user-screen-name in the API.  The API already has all the information for the sender ids, sender screen names, reply-to-user-id, user-id, etc.

 

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