“ Much of what made Twitter useful in the first place – Hashtags, @user and many other little Twitter specific conventions are hacks that were first adopted by users because Twitter didn’t support several key functions like groups or addressing a note to a specific user. Twitter has made the mistake of trying to integrate these workarounds into the base DNA of their service.”
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This works if you assume no one is using the SMS interface anymore. If Twitter removed @’s and #’s they’d be cutting out non-smartphone users from the full experience.
Hell of a bottleneck.
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