a way to think about this is analogous to geo. people used to put geo information in the 140 characters -- but now, we allow you to put it out of band in a machine-readable way. we want to extend that functionality to all types of meta data (links to URLs, etc.).
2010/4/15 André Luís <[email protected]> > Why shorten links that won't count for 140 limit and are not viewed by > user? It will only add un-needed requests and waste values on the twiter > shortener. > > André Luís > > On Apr 15, 2010 2:18 p.m., "M. Edward (Ed) Borasky" <[email protected]> > wrote: > > I'm thinking of something like the RFC process for Internet protocols. > By the way, on a related note, once the "Twitter link shortener" I've > been hearing rumors about is in place, can we have all the links in > tweets sent from the API shortened with it? Profile images, user > object URLs, etc. ;-) > > Part of this stems from my concern over something I thought I heard > yesterday about Twitter building its own "place" database. There are > dozens of place databases - why does Twitter need another one? > > On Apr 15, 6:05 am, Raffi Krikorian <[email protected]> wrote: > > > please feel free to point us to standards that you would like us to > > consider. we are really att... > > > On Thu, Apr 15, 2010 at 12:09 AM, <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > ----- "Jud" <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > On Apr 14, 5:05 pm, > James Teters <jtet...@gmail.... > > -- Raffi Krikorian Twitter Platform Team http://twitter.com/raffi -- To unsubscribe, reply using "remove me" as the subject.
