Twitter Turns 8; May Drop Hashtags and @replies 96
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.
Re:Let the April Fools jokes begin... (Score:5, Funny)
@JMJimmy whatever do you mean? #confused #irony
We can change this! (Score:2, Funny)
#savethehashtag
In other news (Score:4, Funny)
Slashdot might be removing comments. Or at least replacing threaded discussions with flat 255-character one-liner responses, with no HTML markup features.
Re:Natural law? (Score:5, Funny)
tl;dr shld b 32 chr max #attnspn
Re:Remove all of the site's character in a redesig (Score:5, 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?
Re:Natural law? (Score:4, Funny)
ur #fullofit #20ftw!
Re:We can change this! (Score:5, Funny)
#downwithhashtags
Re: Twitter killing off... itself (Score:5, Funny)