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"see more" link? groundbreaking stuff. someone get Twitter on the line!

i know Dave deserves respect but if i was even a janitor at Twitter this post would piss me off.

It wasn't written for the janitor at Twitter, rather it was for people outside Twitter who want to think about what might be coming next. Yes, it is obvious. The idea was taken straight out of Facebook. I thought people would benefit from seeing what it would look like in action. As developers it's easy for us to imagine it, but even we need to mock things up to get a look at it, to help think better about it.

i think my main point is that the display mechanism must be the least of the concerns with respect to introducing > 140 characters. that is to say- I don't believe anyone thinks it's an aesthetic impossibility.

it seems fruitless to dictate "how" without being part of the "why and why not" discussions.

What made me giggle was:

> that doesn't force you to click a link to see the rest

(includes a link you click to see the rest)

I thought I was missing some fancy rollover-to-show and tried to get the rest to show without clicking the "Read more" link.

I think he means a link to an external website.

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