of individual tweets:
http://twitter.com/robotwisdom/status/1139780124
(10 digits = one billion+ sold)
but by switching to alphanumeric numbering
(like TinyURL.com's)
a billion tweets would require only
6 characters ((26+26+10)^6 = 56,800,235,584)
so links to specific tweets
could be embedded concisely:
eg "//1Qa4rF"
unpacked by tweet-readers to (eg)
http://twitter.com/posts/1Qa4rF
while your reader could/should also unpack
mentions of '@username' into two links
one (as now, the username)
a link to that user's aggregated tweets
but the other (presumably just the '@'?)
to a search for all tweets mentioning '@username'
(mostly replies)
and a similar @-search should be offered
(somewhere in each tweet)
for replies to the tweeter herself
nb four compact links:
cshirky: @robotwisdom No, I don't have an active blog. I seem to have two native formats at the moment -- 140 chars and 250,000 chars. :( 7:11 PM Jan 5th from TweetDeck @
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