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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. Natural law? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Up the character limit to 160 to harmonize with SMS.

  2. Profit? by phallstrom · · Score: 3, Interesting

    1. Build Twitter with features people love.
    2. Remove said features infuriating the masses.
    3. Re-introduce said features as a premium feature.
    4. Profit?

    Nothing else seems to be working for them...

  3. I'm a twitter Luddite. by labnet · · Score: 3, Interesting

    I still don't get twitter.
    http://www.zerohedge.com/news/...
    Now get off my lawn.

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