Anatomy of a Twitter message

— dramatization of an actual twitter message

The simplicity of twitter is often mentioned as the key factor of its success.

Slate magazine (April 2007):

But 2.5 years after its inception, is that still “basically it”? We now have @replies, #hashtags, tinyurls, twitpics, RT retweeting and other protocols that we fit into those 140 characters that pollute messages.

Creating something new by taking things away is an interesting idea, but if its users start to re-add all the features that were intentionally left out by encoding it into the messages, does it really work?

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