605: Manage the Moisture Situation

3165.259 - 3193.962 John Siracusa

twitter did this in later years ranges of saying here's the string but the range from character 0 to character 15 is the first username and the next username is here and the next username is here again something is always parsing this and determining that but like to essentially uh not have to have every single individual app suddenly become like a parser to find all the urls find all the app mentions so on and so forth and reconstruct it um again i think uh modern twitter slash x does a better job of that i think mastodon also does a reasonable job of that with links and stuff but