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If they’re going to do this, I would rather see something like 10K (or unlimited) characters. And then simply snip the tweet down to 140 characters for the feed (either manually or automatic). In other words, long text would be just another payload. Just like images or GIFs or what not.

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Nov 12, 2017·1 min read

So… you want to recreate an RSS reader? 😂

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Inventor of the hashtag. Ever-curious product designer and technologist. Previously: Google, Uber, Molly (YC W18).

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