Much shorter than a blog post, but not quite poetry, Twitter’s 140-character restriction is the core of what’s made it successful.
While MySpace, and now Facebook pages force-feed mounds of multimedia content into our browsers, Twitter profiles load instantly and can be scanned through with ease. Twitter has no intention to ever integrate the ability to actually post a photo or video within a Tweet. Instead they have other thoughts.
Alex Payne, API lead at Twitter, hopes in the future to add a layer of meta data to individual Tweets so that applications built on top of Twitter for example, Tweetdeck or Twhirl, will be able to do things like show the actual content without having to browse to another Web page.
The Twitter API version 2.0, which was announced at February’s, SF Mobile Meetup, an exclusive invite-only event for mobile application developers in San Francisco, is set to be released by the second quarter of this year and will open doors for new applications and an overall better response time. Check out future news for more clips from the Meetup.
And see the video above for some humor and let’s say, well, words of Twisdom, from Twitter engineers Alex Payne and Matt Sanford.
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