Ask HN: What's your Twitter beef? I'm searching for ideas.

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Hi,

This is my first Ask HN so I hope the format is okay.

I'm looking to solve a problem that Twitter has as a weekend project.

I'd like to get a list of what problems others see using twitter (spam, whatever) and see if I can tackle one of them.

That's it, hopefully this is enough to go with!

When several dm messages are exchanged between two people (you and one other) in a short period of time, Twitter (or your client) will auto-detect and move into a chat mode.

The 140 character limit really starts becoming a serious limitation.

Perhaps you could implement this feature such that it would only trigger if both of you are on a fat (read: desktop) client so it doesn't cut off the mobile subscribers who may still depend on the 140char limit.

Cool! I haven't dm'ed enough to see this kick in. Time to try it out. No way I would have known about this any other ways, thanks for sharing.

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