I just read a review on TinyPaste on Techcrunch. TinyPaste is considered “tinyURL for text”. The idea is an interesting one: just the other day my coworker Jay Donavan (@getdonavan) was musing: Twitter needs an inline thesaurus that automagically finds short synonyms. Words over 10 chars offers suggestions. Wouldn’t that rock?. The 140 character limit may sometimes seem just a little light, which is why often tweets will consist of links to “go read what I have to say that’s longer than 140 characters”.
However, there’s one difference. Often if someone shares a URL via twitter, they also give some description of what they’re sending (at least, I hope they do, or generally I don’t bother following). TinyPaste would effectively do away with that, since the idea would be that it links out to the entire idea.
I don’t know about you, but I don’t assume that everyone who follows me on twitter wants to read EVERYTHING I have to say, to the point where they’ll follow a link to get there. Not to mention the fact that I use twitter extensively on my phone, and won’t follow a link anywhere.
In the end, twitter was intended to be a quick and dirty communication medium. The more we extend it, the less of its essence and purpose is retained..
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