I’ve never quite understood the appeal of twitter, but occasionally a tweet does find its way onto my computer screen.
Your standard tweet looks a bit like:
I was just at #McDonalds where I saw @Madonna killing a guy!
The ‘#’ tags McDonald’s as a relevant topic of the post. The ‘@’ assures that the tweet will be attached to Modanna’s tweet account.
The ‘#’s and ‘@’s are finding there way into facebook status messages and a host of other nooks and crannies where they don’t really belong. It’s not really a big deal- as they are only approximately as annoying as emoticons ;)
But it did occur to me today that they are needless distractions.. Why not keep the ‘#’s and ‘@’s in the input of a tweet, but just eliminator them in the output- and replace them with stylistic changes or color changes.
I was just at McDonalds where I saw Madonna killing a guy!
Wouldn’t that be nicer?
