When a user's actions indicate their clear next intent, you a) do it and give undo, b) suggest it, c) do nothing, or a disturbingly popular:
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For the record, while meta as heck, this rant was not designed to break poorly conceived software while complaining about it.
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@patio11 a holdover of their SMS api, but yeah a symptom of their larger struggles with change, technical debt, and UX issuesThanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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@patio11 d is the old shorthand for "direct message". Failure mode of syntax derived from content.Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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@patio11 apparently they chose option e) throw a useless error message and hang for x secondsThanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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@patio11 someone already told you I'm sure, but it's the legacy way of doing direct messages.Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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@patio11 prob related to starting a message with “d ” to send direct message, useful for tweet via sms.Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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