Chad, I just sent myself: 1) 40 character DM and did receive the tip. The message was contained to a single text.
2) 150 character DM and did not receive the tip. The message was contained to a single text message. 2) 170 character DM and the message was split into two SMS texts. The second SMS text did not have the tip. Color me confused why I'm not getting the tip now in these tests. Doug @dougw On Mar 3, 1:58 pm, Chad Etzel <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 > >
