[meatsock]

so far noone is addressing what i imagine is the utter uselessness of a majority of status updates. maybe making it harder to find will affect those who update their status just because the box is on the screen first. another potential benefit might be better organization of your datastreams in that updates are more strongly typed; i.e. urls are links, text is text, and images are images. i imagine it's very difficult to determine what's supposed to be a URI vs bad typing. whatever it was that looked at your status update and then got info from the URL (thumbnail, desc) has been pretty terrible for a while now, so maybe this will make it better. if not, i won't miss status updates from anyone who can't figure it out.