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Expect to see t.co/links-that-look-like-this
You can do that already. Storing arbitrary data in long URL's has been possible since the introduction of URL shorteners (play.rust-lang.org uses this extensively)
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Edit!
Edit seems much harder to implement. This basically adds some metadata to the Tweet model instead of embedding it within the body text. That's a change and it needs to be implemented all over, but it is pretty backwards compatible. It seems that one of the fundamental assumptions is that Tweets are immutable. Changing that could break all kinds of things and would probably their systems significantly more complicated…
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Yow! That is fully an iPhone spelling fail. That was not in any way intended. Sorry about that!
Alternatively, it is fully a lack of proofreading before hitting reply fail :-) Either way, yes, out of all the words to misspell, that one was quite unfortunate.
I wonder what they will do once people start using http://the.links http://to.write.longer http://messages
The short answer is that they won't care much. Twitter's job right now is to figure out how to make their UX less niche and grow market share before they lose ground to the Whatsapps and Snapchats of the world, not to police edge cases that are better managed by simple social norms.
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An astute observation. Yet people do not assume that HN will rival Facebook, nor do they place valuations in the hundreds of billions on it. Twitters troubles come from a misguided impression of what it is supposed to be, creating pressure on the product to not be what it in fact is.
Isn't this a common concern with most startups which seek to grow beyond 6, 7 or 8 figures?