Remove 140 character limit: That is the essence of twitter. The limit helps me consume a lot more tweets than I can consume long winding emails or articles.
Whitelist: So make it difficult for someone to send you an email unless they are pre-approved? That looks like solving the spam problem with too big a hammer. I think the spam problem is mostly solved btw. I don't get it on either my Hotmail, yahoo or gmail addresses and an occasional spa can easily be marked and future emails get filtered
Hashtags: Google tried to do this in gmail as labels and I think failed. The automatic classification that Hotmail started (to identify important email, email from contacts, etc.) and probably is there in gmail too is the direction. Why make me do the wok when a machine can do it for me?
Labels were originally pure labels like tags but now they have added sub-labels and nested labels which is basically the same thing as folders. So they are calling them labels but have basically abandoned that concept and are back to folders.
you can label a message with multiple labels. you can only put something into 1 folder. that's the difference between labels and folders. gmail still has the former, and it works.
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Here's why it doesn't work:
Remove 140 character limit: That is the essence of twitter. The limit helps me consume a lot more tweets than I can consume long winding emails or articles.
Whitelist: So make it difficult for someone to send you an email unless they are pre-approved? That looks like solving the spam problem with too big a hammer. I think the spam problem is mostly solved btw. I don't get it on either my Hotmail, yahoo or gmail addresses and an occasional spa can easily be marked and future emails get filtered
Hashtags: Google tried to do this in gmail as labels and I think failed. The automatic classification that Hotmail started (to identify important email, email from contacts, etc.) and probably is there in gmail too is the direction. Why make me do the wok when a machine can do it for me?
I think the article said the 140 character limit is only removed for DMs. Regular tweets stay the same.
Gmail labels did not fail..
what makes you say that?
Labels were originally pure labels like tags but now they have added sub-labels and nested labels which is basically the same thing as folders. So they are calling them labels but have basically abandoned that concept and are back to folders.
you can label a message with multiple labels. you can only put something into 1 folder. that's the difference between labels and folders. gmail still has the former, and it works.