Twitter Considering 10,000-Character Limit for Tweets
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Re: Twitter Considering 10,000-Character Limit for Tweets
#2You see this now, whole paragraphs of a noteworthy book punctuating a timeline, people taking screenshots of text, or otherwise cluttering up my Twitter with textual soundbites in the guise of a JPEG
a.) These are not very accessible
b.) I am too lazy to transcribe / OCR these
c.) It defeats the purpose of Twitter
d.) It would be far more handy to have big text blobs like this in a Tweet's JSON schema Something like
{ textBlob: '...book quotes galore...'}
Re: Twitter Considering 10,000-Character Limit for Tweets
#3I think they should have a weekly character limit and let users use those characters as they want. That way you get a limit to prevent just reams and reams of characters in tweets, but allow flexibility with how you tweet.
Re: Twitter Considering 10,000-Character Limit for Tweets
#4Well... some back-of-the-envelope math. Assuming average characters-per-word of 4.5[1] and also add 1 for space/punctuation for a word unit of 5.5:
10000/5.5 = 1818 words.
1800 words @ 250 wpm average reading speed is ~7 minutes.
(It goes without saying that not every "mega" tweet will use all 10,000 chars.)
[1]https://www.google.com/search?q=average+characters+per+word
Re: Twitter Considering 10,000-Character Limit for Tweets
#5I think they should have a weekly character limit and let users use those characters as they want. That way you get a limit to prevent just reams and reams of characters in tweets, but allow flexibility with how you tweet.
I like this idea, or let users filter by what they want to see. 200 character, 500 character, 5000 character.
It still seems like twitter is trying to find their niche. The 140 character limit is long past its purpose, but it's also kind of a defining characteristic of twitter. It forces brief comments and an easy-skim timeline, at the expense of real conversation or information exchange.
Re: Twitter Considering 10,000-Character Limit for Tweets
#6I think they should have a weekly character limit and let users use those characters as they want. That way you get a limit to prevent just reams and reams of characters in tweets, but allow flexibility with how you tweet.
Why would Twitter implement a feature that makes you use the the service less after you've hit a quota?
Re: Twitter Considering 10,000-Character Limit for Tweets
#7the 160 character limit on twitter helped me learn to speak more concisely.
I've had an account since 2009, but didn't start using it until 2014. It was work at first - I didn't "get" it - but i stuck with it, and gradually i enjoyed it more. All my tweets went through to faceebok, where they recieved more positive feedback than my typical facebook posts.
People can read 160 characters of text quickly, and enjoy it. Long paragraphs, not so much.
Re: Twitter Considering 10,000-Character Limit for Tweets
#8I think they should have a weekly character limit and let users use those characters as they want. That way you get a limit to prevent just reams and reams of characters in tweets, but allow flexibility with how you tweet.
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Re: Twitter Considering 10,000-Character Limit for Tweets
#9You see this now, whole paragraphs of a noteworthy book punctuating a timeline, people taking screenshots of text, or otherwise cluttering up my Twitter with textual soundbites in the guise of a JPEG a.) These are not very accessible b.) I am too lazy to transcribe / OCR these c.) It defeats the purpose of Twitter d.) It would be far more handy to have big text blobs like this in a Tweet's JSON schema Something like…
But imposing those extra costs to being verbose encourages people to be concise, unless they REALLY need the extra words.
Make the words cheap, and twitter will turn into just another prolix platform in a sea of noise.
Re: Twitter Considering 10,000-Character Limit for Tweets
#10I think they should have a weekly character limit and let users use those characters as they want. That way you get a limit to prevent just reams and reams of characters in tweets, but allow flexibility with how you tweet.
Why would Twitter implement a feature that makes you use the the service less after you've hit a quota?
So they can charge premium users for more characters.