I need more characters, Father
One thing that seems missing in all of this social media is the ability to take conversations on Twitter and easily flesh them out into complete posts.
This popped up as I watched @chrisfahey and @vanderwal have a fantastic discussion about the application of Dunbar’s number. I found myself wishing that there was a easy switch they could have flipped mid-post that could have moved the content into a better, longer space.
There are a number of systems that are Twitter-aware and can serve as long-tweet exchanges: Shortmail’s “public emails” are just one of them. But unless Twitter itself supports it, that export step won’t be effortless enough to make such a tool pervasive.
I don’t think such a product is inherently anti-Twitter either — it seems like something that would fit the Discover model of news stories, and further establish Twitter as a complete destination for content — and is really something Twitter itself should be considering adding to its feature set.
