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The Twitter Problem

Only the original tweet is retweeted. The subsequent nuance and context is ignored by the retweeters and their audience.

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The Twitter Problem

After including a link and an image, I have fewer than 100 characters left in my quota.

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The Twitter Problem

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The Aim

To encourage more nuanced and constructive conversation, with more space to develop a thought, while leaving room for brevity and pith.

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The Concept

What if you had _250 characters_? And *all of them* were yours? Light [http://example.com](markdown) support. Extra fields for hashtags and replies.

What if you had 250 characters? And all of them were yours? Light markdown support. Extra fields for hashtags and replies.

#hashtags #are #amazing

@stopsatgreen

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The Concept

And what if you could join multiple posts to make a single thread…

… which could only be tweeted in its entirety so that your full point…

… was sure to be seen in context?

SEND

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Further Ideas

  • Two buttons: send / not yet (think about it)
  • 5s cooling off period (undo)
  • Like / unlike
  • Edit messages / show edits
  • Difference between deleted and removed
  • Trustworthiness metric (negative for removed messages)
  • @message gives shared ownership of tweet; request deletion.
  • Bookmarks not an indicator of favour
  • Cross-post single message to Twitter (as link or truncated), message thread to Facebook as single post

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Competitors

  • Storify.