By John Gruber
For 138 years Lady Liberty watched over us — now it’s time to return the favor.
The difference matters — if you’re really only safe sending 140-byte tweets, then things like tinyarro.ws URLs aren’t really saving you space. (And it’s questionable whether they’re safe anyway, given that many Twitter clients don’t handle Unicode characters in URLs, regardless of tweet length.)
★ Sunday, 8 March 2009