Prediction: “Twitter App Formatting Standards War”

berl — Fri, 08 Jan 2010 13:39:07 +0000

Well…, a war is a little bit exaggerated. But consistency is the issue here, which remembers me the early days of different implementations of webbrowsers (which is still a pain in the ass, ask any random webdeveloper)

For example, today I ran in to the formatting of an URL. In tweetdeck it’s only clickable when an URL has the protocol attached to it (http://). So I complained about it, thinking that people didn’t understand linking in tweets.

Turns out I was wrong, apps like tweetie and the webinterface of twitter itself automagically create a hyperlink from an address prefixed with www without an http://.

So my question is, should there be a standard (like HTML/CSS) or developer guidline to format tweets (or is there one already?)

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Prediction: “Twitter App Formatting Standards War”