The term that I am hearing more and more frequently is "TACO" which is an acronym for 'That's Another Code Orange' to describe these events.

Setting aside the irony/humor thing, link detection and conversion is a large functionality benefit and productivity enhancement, saving the time of many millions of users the need to copy and paste links from a message or program into the location bar to visit referenced links in communications.

This was very clearly a user error thing. 

On most platforms, Twitter and other programs provide visual indication that it sees a what it thinks is a link or URL.  

Clearly this is not Twitter's fault or problem, and it could have occurred on ANY platform that does auto-linking.  

Jothan Frakes
Tel: +1.206-355-0230



On Thu, Dec 6, 2018 at 2:42 PM Roberto Gaetano <roberto_gaetano@hotmail.com> wrote:
I am upset.
Until recent times, during the Berlusconi era, we (Italy) were the undisputed leaders in reporting embarrassing actions or speeches by domestic politicians, in particular in the government area.
However nowadays, in spite of all the laudable efforts made by the current government, we have to admit that we can only run for silver medal.
But we can be creative, and do what happens for football (soccer): we can buy world champions to play in our teams. Would the US mind to lend us Rudy? He even has an Italian last name. He would be the perfect addition to our current cybersecurity expert team and help us in regaining the lost primacy.
Cheers,
Roberto


On 06.12.2018, at 23:16, Ram Mohan <rmohan@afilias.info> wrote:

Too funny that thread!

 

 

From: Mark Svancarek (CELA) <marksv@microsoft.com> 
Sent: Thursday, December 6, 2018 2:10 PM
To: Elaine Pruis <elainepruis@gmail.com>; Ram Mohan <rmohan@afilias.info>
Cc: UA-discuss@icann.org
Subject: RE: [UA-discuss] Fun with linkification

 

“I no longer have two problems” lol

 

From: UA-discuss <ua-discuss-bounces@icann.org> On Behalf Of Elaine Pruis
Sent: Thursday, December 6, 2018 10:06
To: Ram Mohan <rmohan@afilias.info>
Cc: UA-discuss@icann.org
Subject: Re: [UA-discuss] Fun with linkification

 

This thread on twitter is telling.

 

On Wed, Dec 5, 2018 at 1:32 PM Ram Mohan <rmohan@afilias.info> wrote:
To be clear, Twitter did it right.

 

On Wed, Dec 5, 2018, 7:19 PM Elaine Pruis <elainepruis@gmail.com> wrote:
I'm really hoping this doesn't make Twitter rethink their plan to expand the list of TLDs that get linkified!

 

 

On Wed, Dec 5, 2018 at 10:14 AM Asmus Freytag <asmusf@ix.netcom.com> wrote: