The problem isn't character limit.
The problem is missing interesting Tweets. My timeline is flooded with new tweets. Better flagging to read later, algorithms that say you might find this most interesting, filtering would be welcome and are needed.
The problem is missing interesting Tweets. My timeline is flooded with new tweets. Better flagging to read later, algorithms that say you might find this most interesting, filtering would be welcome and are needed.
Recently I wanted to follow a well known Java Evangelist, but their Java tweets were mixed with lots of politics tweets. Even though I agreed with the politics, I only wanted to read the Java related stuff - but it was like drinking from a firehose so I gave up.
And also being able to disable retweets for Lists would be nice too.
Can you expand on that? Do the tweets contain links, or do they just pack enough meaning into 140 characters that you'd like to think about it for some time before replying?
Personally, I think that anything that needs to be bookmarked later like that belongs in an RSS feed.
The last point also touches on an issue I have with the Twitter Android client: there's no way to refresh a tweet to see new replies. Even if I go back to my timeline and tap on the tweet again, it'll just show whatever it has in the local cache. Normally that's good behavior, but a pull-to-refresh (an action patented by Twitter, no less) would be absolutely ideal.