TweetDeck Breaks Twitter’s 140 Character Rule
by Max Eddy | 5:20 pm, January 31st
The makers of TweetDeck, the popular Twitter client, have unveiled a new fully-integrated system to extend tweets past Twitter’s 140-character limit and into infinity. The new service, called Deck.ly is now baked-in to the TweetDeck desktop, Chrome, and Android clients with specially-made iPad and iPhone apps on the way.
Deck.ly works by creating a separate webpage for each tweet over 140 characters. This gives users the freedom to write as much as they want, even embed media (videos, etc.), and still share the information through Twitter’s hyper-connected network. Deck.ly is also seamlessly integrated into TweetDeck clients. Users simply type as much as they want and receive a warning once they pass 140 characters informing them that Deck.ly has been activated.
TweetDeck users will see these longer posts in the application as full-sized posts, non-users will see the beginning of the tweet with a deck.ly link they can follow to see the entire messsage. Also, since they operate outside Twitter’s framework, all Deck.ly pages will be publicly accessible.
Though other tweet-lengthening services have existed for some time, the seamless integration and wide user base puts Deck.ly in a class all its own, and may have wider implications for Twitter users.
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