Twitter started out as an SMS repeater.
SMS has for ages, thanks to Nokia, had the capability of merging multiple messages into a single large one.
Twitter could just make use of this and save themselves a whole lot of grief.
SMS has for ages, thanks to Nokia, had the capability of merging multiple messages into a single large one.
Twitter could just make use of this and save themselves a whole lot of grief.
(Before some smartass replies "I do read over sms", well even without sms merging, twitter could still split a tweet into multiple sms. 99.9999% of their userbase wouldn't care.)