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Twitter Turns 8; May Drop Hashtags and @replies

Posted by timothy on from the #-your-fist-@-them-in-rage dept.

Twitter has only just turned eight years old, but in that time it's become so pervasive that some of its conventions have spread beyond Twitter itself, and its character limit seems almost like a natural law. Now, Buzzfeed reports that some Twitter-isms may be about to change: based on screenshots of interfaces in alpha testing, it seems that hashtags and "at" replies may be on the chopping block, or (based on some updates made to the story) at least made less visible for some readers.

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  1. Re:Let the April Fools jokes begin... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    @JMJimmy whatever do you mean? #confused #irony

  2. We can change this! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    #savethehashtag

    1. Re:We can change this! by master5o1 · · Score: 4, Funny

      #downwithhashtags

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  3. In other news by mysidia · · Score: 3, Funny

    Slashdot might be removing comments. Or at least replacing threaded discussions with flat 255-character one-liner responses, with no HTML markup features.

  4. Re:Natural law? by Waffle+Iron · · Score: 5, Funny

    tl;dr shld b 32 chr max #attnspn

  5. Re:Remove all of the site's character in a redesig by bobstreo · · Score: 4, Funny

    Sure sounds like another site I heard of recently where the users got upset about people stripping away the things that made the site the site.

    Digg?

  6. Re:Natural law? by 93+Escort+Wagon · · Score: 3, Funny

    ur #fullofit #20ftw!

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  7. Re: Twitter killing off... itself by Ginger+Unicorn · · Score: 5, Funny

    A bold statement.

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