Twitter Processes One Billion SMS Tweets Per Month (And This Is Why We Can't Have Proper Hyperlinks)

Bad news – SMS on Twitter isn’t going away.

This also means the limitations imposed by catering to SMS on Twitter aren’t likely to be disappearing some time this afternoon, either. This includes simple, but aesthetically-pleasing, 140 character-effective and commonplace-since-the-90s technologies like anchored hyperlinks.

Hashtags work like hyperlinks on Twitter (going straight to a Twitter search for that tag), so the platform is already there, and something equally basic would be easy to implement (as well as eliminating all the problems Twitter has with trusted

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