Comments on: Feature Request: Compress My Tweets

By: Natan V

Natan V — Tue, 01 Feb 2011 19:04:00 +0000

Tweet It In has a cool approach. They let you form contractions, add abbreviations, remove vowels, replace ascii pairs like “cc” with single unicode “u33c4″, and shorten links as u type. Check them out:nnhttp://tweetitin.com

By: micah

micah — Wed, 27 May 2009 05:02:23 +0000

http://www.twitlonger.com/about/ - allows you to tweet something longer than 140. http://tweetshrink.com/ will remove extra "unneeded" characters such as apostrophes and some vowels...

By: David G. Cohen

David G. Cohen — Mon, 18 May 2009 04:14:30 +0000

different, but along those lines... http://www.tweetthistext.com/

By: tweetprobe

tweetprobe — Sun, 17 May 2009 19:22:12 +0000

done

By: Rob

Rob — Sun, 17 May 2009 18:29:51 +0000

this makes me think of all kinds of fun cipher games that could be played with twitter

By: Jeffrey Powers

Jeffrey Powers — Sun, 17 May 2009 17:48:26 +0000

Clearly a highly effective implementation of message shortening was invented for the Flutter prototype. http://bit.ly/DxMnV

By: Tim

Tim — Sun, 17 May 2009 17:37:28 +0000

there is a new way of sending text messages greater than 140 characters – email…

By: Andrew Hyde

Andrew Hyde — Sun, 17 May 2009 17:32:36 +0000

There was a morse code meme a few weeks back, pretty funny.

By: Ryan

Ryan — Wed, 13 May 2009 22:57:56 +0000

OK, the best comment to this came via a comment on facebook from my friend Dave Jilk:

Rather than compress, the tweet should just reference a URL that contains the “full” tweet, e.g., “#uncompress http://bit.ly/asdf“. The “writer” side would generate this, the “reader” side would just display the contents of the URL (which would presumably be a blog post or similar).

This would have the advantage of allowing a tweet of unlimited size and mixed media types, and it is also more human readable. Good idea Dave.

Of course, part of the inherent beauty of twitter is the 140 character limit, and this would destroy that.

And, ultimately, people passing URL-shortened links via twitter pretty much accomplishes this goal anyway.

By: Ryan

Ryan — Wed, 13 May 2009 22:53:51 +0000

i too enjoy whittling a message down to 140 characters. while folks complain about the inanity of twitter (and some of it surely is), twitter has also enhanced the pithiness of messaging, which is great.

my compression idea was really more of a joke. but one of the cool things about twitter is how user conventions have evolved (RT, OH, #hashtags) without any guidance from twitter. and so the idea of completely bastardizing it by sending compressed non-human readable text through twitter made me laugh.