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jQueryIsAwesome
on May 23, 2012
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Is it true that you can't tweet "Get Better."?
get out, get in, get in shape, get laid, get up, get down, get
http://example.com/file.zip
It really is poor engineering, any non-letter prefix would have been good enough.
libria
on May 23, 2012
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Well there aren't many convenient choices on a phone. # is used in twitter, * is often used by the carrier. Might have been better to prefix with just "z".
scoot
on May 23, 2012
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Twitter existed before the hash-tag - that was a user created meme:
http://support.twitter.com/articles/49309-what-are-hashtags-...
treetrouble
on May 23, 2012
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disabling the use of #get as a hashtag is still better than disabling its use as an english word
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It really is poor engineering, any non-letter prefix would have been good enough.