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The Sunday Short Message Story Service
usmcnavgeek:
The government money jobs are good ones. You can think of your taxes as helping to pay for your next paycheck!
David_Dovey:
Could you not just do this via Twitter?
Inlander:
There are various reasons why that doesn't appeal to me, most of which would probably sound pretty obtuse, but the main one is that according to their website the limit for Twitter is 140 characters; for a text-message the limit is 160 characters. Based on the stories I've written so far, those 20 characters would make a huge difference.
Edith:
Twitter's character limit bothers me, because I don't understand WHY they decided to make it so close to the length of a text message (SMS) but still so short.
Inlander:
Also, as I understand it from reading the FAQ on their website (and correct me if I'm wrong), in order to get a message from Twitter you have to be logged in to it. Part of the idea of these stories is that they'll be something that pops up out of the blue on your phone: I like the idea of someone, say, sitting on the train home, getting a text, and only finding out that it's a story when they open the text. I like the spontaneity and pseudo-randomness of that. Logging into Twitter specifically to get the story just wouldn't be the same.
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