Unless things changed recently, this is not my experience at all. The "d username to reply" info always came through and frequently spilled over to a 2nd message.... thus doubling my txt rate for every DM received. Since I don't have unlimited text, that promptly caused me to disable DMs at SMS.
-Chad On Tue, Mar 3, 2009 at 1:43 PM, Doug Williams <[email protected]> wrote: > Well said. > > In my experience, the tip ("d TwitterName to reply") at the bottom of the > SMS delivered direct message is only applied if it does not extend the > message beyond the 160 char boundary of the current text message. (This same > behavior is also seen when you subscribe to SMS device notifications for > specific user updates.) > > Thanks, > Doug > @dougw > > On Tue, Mar 3, 2009 at 1:34 PM, TjL <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> On Tue, Mar 3, 2009 at 12:30 PM, Craig Hockenberry >> <[email protected]> wrote: >> > >> > Won't this present a problem for users who are getting their direct >> > messages through SMS? Do they get truncated on delivery? >> >> Hi Craig :-) >> >> FWIW: Almost *all* DMs come through as two SMSes. >> >> Why? >> >> Because "Direct Message from <Twitter Name>" is prepended to the >> message, which counts towards the 160 character SMS limit AND (what is >> worse) Twitter also appends something like "Use d TwitterName to >> reply" >> >> (I left my iPhone home today or I could give you the exact message). >> >> The second SMS is almost always just the last bit of the message: "d >> TwitterName to reply" >> >> So unless Twitter stops appending the "How to reply to a DM via SMS", >> sending a DM that is longer than 140 characters not really going to >> cause much of a hardship. The second SMS will simply have more actual >> content in it :-) And there's little to no chance that you'll reach >> the length of having *3* SMSes (320 characters) >> >> TjL > > > > -- > Doug Williams > > [email protected] > http://www.igudo.com >
