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treetrouble on May 23, 2012 | parent | context | favorite | on: Is it true that you can't tweet "Get Better."?

good design implies that there's some advantage to its use

tedunangst on May 23, 2012 [–]

? I can use a simple command to request tweets on my dumb phone. How is that not an advantage?

treetrouble on May 23, 2012 | [–]

Is it not still simple with a single character prefix?

tedunangst on May 24, 2012 | | [–]

Depends on your userbase. Completely in band normal English command messages probably fits many users' mental model.

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