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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:Remove all of the site's character in a redesig by dmbasso · · Score: 3, Informative

    You forgot to say #FUCKBETA.

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  2. Re:Natural law? by Mr.+X · · Score: 5, Informative

    It is harmonized with SMS already. The difference between 160 and 140 characters is to provide room for the username.

  3. Re:Only thing I hate about Twitter by wonkey_monkey · · Score: 3, Informative

    Greasemonkey to the rescue!

    http://userscripts.org/scripts...

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  4. Buzzfeed? by rebelwarlock · · Score: 5, Informative

    I almost clicked on the link, but then I saw it was buzzfeed. You can safely assume the whole "story" is clickbait nonsense.