140 seems pretty short, but 10000 seems very excessive. Why not something closer to the hundreds. 500 maybe?
Twitter Considering 10,000-Character Limit for Tweets
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#42Twitter'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.
A lot of the characters could be separated out into their own data fields. There's no reason to have links & hashtags in the main character text.
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#43If this happens, Twitter will cease to be Twitter. In keeping with the bird analogy, messages will be that annoying parakeet in the pet store rather than spring time finches.
I originally agreed with you, but after thinking about it I think the devil is in the details of how this is released. That is, Twitter's uniqueness is that it is geared towards short, real-time "bursts of consciousness", but people with lots of followers still occasionally put out long "blogs in tweet form" with multiple tweets.
If Twitter keeps the focus on the short bursts, but still has a separate way to do "Twitter blogs" or whatever, I think it could work. If Twitter just unconditionally changes all Tweets to 10k it seems like it would kill what makes Twitter unique in the first place.
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#44I can't believe that there are so many backers of the old limit! Don't you guys hate that you have to always compromise on punctuation, select shorter (but less precise) synonyms, and other just to fit into the story that Twitter was trying to push all this time, but which wasn't the reality (of people using Twitter via SMS)? Okay, now, Twitter goes to another extreme - from too short, to too long. I'm fine with shorter message, but 140 is way too short. Modern phones combine SMSs into a bigger blob. Use that and just make a limit of 5 SMSs or something along these lines.
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#45The 140 limit is the reason I like twitter. It forces conciseness and some kind of quality.
10k blog posts with 140 charsbof content to decipher.... No thanks. Showing the first 140 only with a "read more" button does not fix that.
Rip twitter
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#46This is going to kill Twitter for me. A few more characters is likely a good move. 256 seems nice.
But, I don't use Twitter for long form content. I do use Twitter as a way for people to get me interested in long form, or to raise awareness of something.
If my feed gets clogged with long form, I'm moving on. Too much info, wrong use case.
Seems to me Twitter could gather a lot more value out reconsideration of how hostile they have been to the ecosystem that grew up around Twitter.
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#47Twitter'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.
A lot of the characters could be separated out into their own data fields. There's no reason to have links & hashtags in the main character text.
Yeah they should separate out links (with a maximum number total links not characters per post) and hash tags (again with a maximum number of total hash tags not characters per post). Something like 5 links and 15 hash tags should be enough for even the most hardcore of Twitter users. Then up the post limit to 200 or 250 characters.
I have heard about Twitter looking into upping the limits for years now and I think they are over thinking the problem. Then again I have no idea if their backend is some how weirdly designed with the 140 character limit and changing that might require a lot of work. I wouldn't have thought so though. Well I should say I hope not, you never know what some devs do ;)
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#48Finally! I have been wanting them to remove that for a long time now.
Twitters biggest problem is that they are a protocol router more than a destination. And so while people use it to find content they consume this content somewhere else out of reach for twitters add engine.
Now that people will start writing on twitter this will mean a lot more time is spent on twitter consuming content on twitter and reading ads on twitter.
With this they get to keep the protocol part while keeping users longer on their platform to consume content.
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#49If this happens, Twitter will cease to be Twitter. In keeping with the bird analogy, messages will be that annoying parakeet in the pet store rather than spring time finches.
Completely non-sequitur fact, but maybe fun from a "hacker" perspective:
Most parakeet cages I've seen in bird stores have a bell-in-a-ball type toy. Try picking it up and ringing it sometime. For some reason, all the parakeets will stop chattering as long as the bell is ringing.
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#50Presumably, post-140 Twitter will be pretty much the same as classical 140 twitter, but instead of 3/4 of all twerps ending with links to properties outside of Twitter, a huge chunk of those will link to more content inside of Twitter. The only major change in post-140 Twitter would be the death of the Andreessen-style twerpstorm.
> The only major change in post-140 Twitter would be the death of the Andreessen-style twerpstorm
You'd think that's the case but I'm not so sure about that.
The hidden secret of secret of Tweetstorms is that they take up the space of multiple tweets, which means that people can retweet more times (people do retweet entire Tweetstorms!) and occupy the entire space on their followers' timelines.
Although, if you Tweetstorm when a 10k character limit exist, the shenanigans would be obvious. Anyone who pulled this would instantly get an unfollow from me, of course.