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		dlsspy on Aug 17, 2009 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: rel="shortlink" - URL shortening that doesn't hurt... That's a fine suggestion, but it requires some out of band metadata. Remember, twitter is an SMS mailing list. You want to be able to send that data in a way it can be picked up from simple mechanisms like SMS messages.

chrischen on Aug 17, 2009 | [–]

hmmm... I guess that's a good reason. But what other use is there besides SMS?

trezor on Aug 17, 2009 | [–]

Phones have been able to recieve SMSes longer than 140 characters for about a decade now.

Limiting a service on the internet because 0.1% of the users want SMS notification on decade old phones is stupid and backwards.

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