[twitter-dev] Re: To link the @ or not to link the @, that is the question

2009-04-17 Thread Abraham Williams
I don't link the @ sign because 1) I don't like how it looks and 2) Twitter.com does not. On Fri, Apr 17, 2009 at 09:21, Chad Etzel jazzyc...@gmail.com wrote: A more lighthearted discussion to see where people stand on this convention. We all know the convention of prefixing usernames with

[twitter-dev] Re: To link the @ or not to link the @, that is the question

2009-04-17 Thread Doug Williams
I agree. I'm all for convention... It helps users navigate and build confidence in the Twitter experience, where ever it may be. Doug Williams Twitter API Support http://twitter.com/dougw On Fri, Apr 17, 2009 at 7:45 AM, Abraham Williams 4bra...@gmail.com wrote: I don't link the @ sign

[twitter-dev] Re: To link the @ or not to link the @, that is the question

2009-04-17 Thread Abraham Williams
This is something else that could go on a best practices page on the apiwiki. On Fri, Apr 17, 2009 at 15:50, Doug Williams d...@twitter.com wrote: I agree. I'm all for convention... It helps users navigate and build confidence in the Twitter experience, where ever it may be. Doug Williams

[twitter-dev] Re: To link the @ or not to link the @, that is the question

2009-04-17 Thread Nick Arnett
On Fri, Apr 17, 2009 at 7:21 AM, Chad Etzel jazzyc...@gmail.com wrote: A more lighthearted discussion to see where people stand on this convention. We all know the convention of prefixing usernames with the @ symbol, the interesting thing I notice is that different sites (and even within

[twitter-dev] Re: To link the @ or not to link the @, that is the question

2009-04-17 Thread Chad Etzel
On Fri, Apr 17, 2009 at 6:36 PM, Nick Arnett nick.arn...@gmail.com wrote: Perhaps it helps to think about a tool that extracts the tagged text from links.  Would it make sense to end up with text that omits the @ sign?  Not really, I disagree. There's really nothing useful about the @ sign