[Pharaoh2]

You know what a good solution to that? Constant cost for @mentions. Each one costs you two characters.

While you are at it, urls cost you 5. Images cost you 10.

Removes the benefit of shorter twitter handles, longer twitter handles doesn't fuck up what you are trying to say and, you can talk to multiple people in the same tweet.

[a_shane]

Ooh, I like this!

However, I feel like it would be weird for people to adopt, and probably put people off of Twitter, since paying attention to a 1-1 limit is annoying enough.

[mikeg8]

I don't think it would require any conscious effort on the end user, the remaining char counter would handle all of this for them so adoption is painless

[HorizonXP]

I really like this idea.