Anatomy of a Twitter message
By Zef Hemel
- 1 minutes read - 94 words— dramatization of an actual twitter message
The simplicity of twitter is often mentioned as the key factor of its success.
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?