Have Twitter lookups return the "top three" results

I think that sms lookup responses should contain more than one result. Sandy can squeeze several items in by using a short name for each of the items.

Right now, any lookup through Twitter or Jott (with SMS reply) only returns the "first result". This is too limiting. I think Sandy should return a list of the "top three" results.

The stated reason for the "first result" behavior is the 140 character limit that sms messages have. It's likely that the first result will take the entire 140 characters.

In order to squeeze in 3 results, Sandy would have to limit each result to about 35-40 characters. (Some extra characters are left for numbers and formatting.) That means that you'd only get 6 or 7 words to describe each item.

Example:
> d s milk
> direct from s: #24 shopping list @todo #25 buy milk of magnesia @todo #26 milk all I can out of my subscription

1) To get more information on any item, the message can be replied to with a lookup for that number.
> d s l #24

2) In order to limit each result to a few words, Sandy should have a "short name" for each item. Then she can reply to the lookup with only the "short name".

This "short name" could be automatically created by Sandy, or there could be an option to set it by using the website.
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