Human/machine readable format for titling links in Tweets
Summary
Give your Tweeted links titles by using the following format:
"This is my link title": http://example.org/
Raison d'être
Link titles enable us to add meaning to links. This is especially beneficial for shortened URLs which are even harder for people to decode than verbose ones.
This format degrades gracefully ie. it is human readable even in Twitter clients that don't support the format.
I wrote this to appear on: http://twitterformats.org/2009/12/proposal-ping/
2 comments:
It's a real shame that Twitter didn't use this format from the start (it's vanilla Textile and wiki markup afterall) to let people author regular hyperlinks. For start the URL wouldn't count against your tweet length and there'd be no need for tinyurls. Bah.
Jay, unfortunetely it's not 100% perfect Textile/wiki markup, you must add a space between the title and URL, otherwise some Twitter clients get confused and don't recognise the link.
I'm not sure whether to use the proper (Textile/wiki) markup and wait for them to get it right or stick with the spaced version.
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