Unless you have a good reason for forcing really terse questions (even shorter than Twitter's 140-character limit), please, please make the tiny text input into a textarea. Or if you want to be fancy, start it off as a one-line textarea but expand it if I start typing more. I have to write my question somewhere else and paste it to actually be able to read it back. Otherwise, really great job hustling to get great people for these AMAs.
Edit: I guess the questions do have to be short, but there wasn't proper validation/notification when my question was too long (it just took me to a blank page to reask a question).
Thanks. I think we're going to lift or lessen the constraint on question length. We were trying to have them fit in a tweet, and also we noticed that most interview questions are relatively short, but we've gotten that feedback quite a lot.
Wow, really? What a crappy developer platform. I question why Twitter even bothers to put that stuff in a bulleted list when they're not even giving the developers a choice as to what they want to use. My natural reaction is to blame the developer for trigger-happy permissions requesting. Sorry about that!
Edit: I guess the questions do have to be short, but there wasn't proper validation/notification when my question was too long (it just took me to a blank page to reask a question).