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I 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?
I 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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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.
> The 140 character limit is long past its purpose What was its purpose and why is it long past it?
To allow people to use Twitter over SMS. SMS are 160 characters, so a 140 character tweet leaves room for a 20 character header to allow for metadata and actions.
You can still use Twitter this way, which is why (as of relatively recently) you couldn't post a tweet that began with the word "Get", even from the web interface.
Twitter's limit is too low, but it does have a certain appeal, and I'm following a lot of smart people that express a lot in 140 chars. Would be happy if this limit was raised to 250 chars. But raising to 10,000 chars would probably kill Twitter for me.
The only major change in post-140 Twitter would be the death of the Andreessen-style twerpstorm.
Every media distribution site atm seems to try to also own the content.
Twitter's value isnt that you have to write short messages but that others can scan dozens of ideas/tweets of multiple people in a very short time. They wont take that away. Most likely you will even have to attach a 1400 tweet to the post.
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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.
> The 140 character limit is long past its purpose What was its purpose and why is it long past it?
Twitter's limit is too low, but it does have a certain appeal, and I'm following a lot of smart people that express a lot in 140 chars. Would be happy if this limit was raised to 250 chars. But raising to 10,000 chars would probably kill Twitter for me.
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