On 22 Sep 2009, at 16:21, Craig Andrews wrote:
Why not just 'attach' a url to a notice as you would attach an image
to an email? then length is not an issue. If you don't mess with the
message content and just add a char to specify the links in order
surely this is achievable?
i.e.
"This is a notice with an interesting #link. Ooo look, this #link
is useful too. I want to #tag this notice also."
1. http://link.one/message-url/is-very-long.html
2. http://you.can/cgi-bin/also.cgi?have=lots%20of%20special
%characters
3. http://statusnet.installation/tags/tag
It's an interesting idea. The only downside I've thought of (and
granted,
I've dedicated only about 10 seconds of mental processing power at
this
point) is that this is not how microblogging services work now, so
it will
take a bit of work on the users' part to get used to it.
Yes, I agree to a point, but it's not such a jump from using a client
such as TweetDeck where you enter in the url to be shortened under the
tweet message window.
Your could hide the link information from the timeline and if people
want to see it they can click a "show links" button.
Users are lazy. They're not going to want to do that, so the vast
majority
of links will never been seen.
Obfuscated links are never 'seen' anyway. In fact it would free up
more space in the message itself.
Paul
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