Comments on: 140 Characters Soon Forgotten? http://www.techsoomer.com/2009/04/140-characters-forgotten/ at the intersection of business and technology Sat, 31 Oct 2009 12:25:07 -0400 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: pruett http://www.techsoomer.com/2009/04/140-characters-forgotten/comment-page-1/#comment-72 pruett Fri, 01 May 2009 03:08:43 +0000 http://www.techsoomer.com/?p=437#comment-72 The 140 character limit made sense to some degree. However, seeing how other web services have improved upon the microblog platform, it appears more of a restriction than anything else. Eztweets is a great way to combat this restriction. <br>Sounds like you're keeping busy Diego. Best of luck. I'll be in touch. The 140 character limit made sense to some degree. However, seeing how other web services have improved upon the microblog platform, it appears more of a restriction than anything else. Eztweets is a great way to combat this restriction.
Sounds like you're keeping busy Diego. Best of luck. I'll be in touch.

]]> By: blog364 http://www.techsoomer.com/2009/04/140-characters-forgotten/comment-page-1/#comment-71 blog364 Fri, 01 May 2009 01:09:40 +0000 http://www.techsoomer.com/?p=437#comment-71 Kevin,<br><br>I totally agree with you. It's so amazing that after three years there are more companies offering more and better services to use Twitter than Twitter itself! And whether I think simplicity has it's place (specially now a day of ever increasing complex apps), in the case of Twitter it just might be TOO simple and not enough to sustain the service!<br><br>One of the most frustrating things for me has always been the 140 character limit, which was inherited from the SMS world. But I don't really see today a reason why they haven't upgraded the service. So I went and built my own solution: <a href="http://www.eztweets.com%21" rel="nofollow">www.eztweets.com!</a><br><br>Best,<br>Diego<br><br>p.s.: I know that I owe you a phone call... just got very busy trying to launch two new services: tweencubator and ummana! Lets try next week. Kevin,

I totally agree with you. It's so amazing that after three years there are more companies offering more and better services to use Twitter than Twitter itself! And whether I think simplicity has it's place (specially now a day of ever increasing complex apps), in the case of Twitter it just might be TOO simple and not enough to sustain the service!

One of the most frustrating things for me has always been the 140 character limit, which was inherited from the SMS world. But I don't really see today a reason why they haven't upgraded the service. So I went and built my own solution: http://www.eztweets.com!

Best,
Diego

p.s.: I know that I owe you a phone call… just got very busy trying to launch two new services: tweencubator and ummana! Lets try next week.

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