New Twitter has Gist Support

"but followers hate clicking on links"

Can you qualify this statement? I don't hate clicking on links.

Net users are hurried; they read summaries; they scan. Tweets nailed a 'headline/one-sentence' need; the hard limit was a part of the winningness.

Maybe, though, there's a series of gradual expansions of the attention you're willing to dedicate a thought, thread, person, or topic. There's the Tweet; there's a bit more context; there's a paragraph or two; there's a running conversation; there's an essay; there's a book.

The Tweet is still the gateway -- and you still need to be short and sweet there. But Twitter, Inc. wants -- and perhaps needs for a sustainable business model -- to play a role in your next few escalations-of-attention, in the direction that the Tweet sent you. NewTwitter (and t.co) are parts of their strategy to stay involved.

NewTwitter seems a little rough to me, so far -- so much new UI, so many sizes/intensities/colors of text, some new 'modes'. But, if they manage to give you just the context/followup info you want, in a manner less wasteful of screen and gestures then other options, it could be a win for them. And if you don't want all that second-pane stuff -- it's easy enough to ignore, or use a minimalist interface instead. The reader still needs to demonstrate interest with a click to see followup info, so Tweet-authors can't change their style too much. It's just that click-showing-interest may be easier for the user -- not requiring a full-page load or new web tab.

" But isn't this just reinventing the blog?"

Or Friendfeed.

I'd like access to the pretty right panel ;)

3rd party plugins so that I can get evernote or snaptic or remember the milk or whatever third party content to display in there.

there are a million and one public custom data sources, don't let us be constrained by the ones you bless.

or if you don't want to deal with the security headaches, just allow a standard way for 3rd parties to inform twitter that their content is #newtwitter friendly and allow it to display formatted text.

basically, instead of using twitter through all of those sites, I just want to go to twitter and have all my content there and not be redirected all over the web (or at least have the option).

and 'lest I sound too demanding, great work and congratulations :)

Maybe oEmbed support? http://www.oembed.com/

Pastebin perhaps? And Reddit posts, they have a nice API.

I haven't got the new twitter yet, but I'd like to know what I must do so that if somebody tweets a URL to my site (video) that the video will show in the right panel. Facebook has a form where you submit your page and they approve you. Will you be providing something similar?

When you do...Please don't crush your developer community.