{"id":238,"date":"2008-07-17T23:00:04","date_gmt":"2008-07-18T07:00:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.khaitan.org\/blog\/?p=238"},"modified":"2008-07-17T23:00:04","modified_gmt":"2008-07-18T07:00:04","slug":"twitter-should-count-out-replies-and-user-from-status-text","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.khaitan.org\/blog\/2008\/07\/twitter-should-count-out-replies-and-user-from-status-text\/","title":{"rendered":"Twitter should count out @replies and @user from status text"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>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 <a href=\"mailto:having_my_long_name@emailhost.com\">having_my_long_name@emailhost.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The day is not far when twitter screen names would @mylongname2008. This one takes 10% of the text from 140 available.<\/p>\n<p>At the minimal twitter should count out the @replies and @user from the 140 characters and make that part of the meta-data.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The\u00a0API can handle this transparently, It just requires adding\u00a0a <strong>new field<\/strong> called\u00a0<strong>to-user-screen-name<\/strong> in the API.\u00a0\u00a0The API\u00a0already\u00a0has all the information for the sender ids, sender screen names,\u00a0reply-to-user-id, user-id, etc.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[116],"tags":[122,131,139,332],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.khaitan.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.khaitan.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.khaitan.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.khaitan.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.khaitan.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=238"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.khaitan.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.khaitan.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=238"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.khaitan.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=238"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.khaitan.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=238"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}