Comments on: Brevity

By: Kerry Buckley

Kerry Buckley — Thu, 19 Mar 2009 13:28:55 +0000

The smallest I know of is Tantek Celik, who managed to get @t, I guess he needed special clearance.

Or maybe the rules changed at some point? You might recognise @u.

By: JP

JP — Sat, 13 Dec 2008 20:48:35 +0000

Thanks John. This business of getting the hash-tag in reminds me of how frustrated I was at *not* being able to get @jp in twitter. It makes sense to have a small name. The smallest I know of is Tantek Celik, who managed to get @t, I guess he needed special clearance. Of course we have @ev, I think there are other 2 character names, but we should bear in mind that a long twitter name reduces someone else’s ability to send us a brief message.

By: John Dodds

John Dodds — Sat, 13 Dec 2008 20:12:49 +0000

Guy defaults on loan that helped pal woo gal via casket-based dating game. Lawyer outsmarts blood-thirsty lender. Boats come in. All happy.

Had to omit the blood-thirsty to get the hash-tag in.

By: JP

JP — Sat, 13 Dec 2008 15:57:56 +0000

David, in keeping with Dickens’ style, we should probably go for one tweet per chapter for him. But for now I want to see whether we can get all of Shakespeare first.

By: David cushman

David cushman — Sat, 13 Dec 2008 14:58:24 +0000

Marvellous. I look forward to the Dickens #. Preparing a Christmas Carol right now :-)

By: 140Char » Brevity - Hamlet in 140 characters…

140Char » Brevity - Hamlet in 140 characters… — Sat, 13 Dec 2008 14:07:13 +0000

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By: JP

JP — Sat, 13 Dec 2008 13:55:13 +0000

Shefaly, to avoid the hashtags taking up space, what I did was to tweet the entire 140 character message and then refer to it in a separate message, with the hashtags.

Glad you like it.

By: Shefaly

Shefaly — Sat, 13 Dec 2008 13:46:46 +0000

JP:

This is the most apt and wonderfully contextual Twitter project I have seen. I contributed Romeo and Juliet and am trying hard to do A Midsummer Night’s Dream. The use of the hashtag means that really, one does it in 130 chars, including the play’s name.