Twitter could charge 1¢ for each character over 140. That will encourage people to (still) be concise, but also monetize people (or companies) that want to say more.
I'd love to see a limit of like 2-3 long-form tweets per 24 hour period.
Twitter Considering 10,000-Character Limit for Tweets
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Re: Twitter Considering 10,000-Character Limit for Tweets
#72I like Twitter because it forces people to be concise. There are already plenty of places on the web where people can post long thoughtful articles or op-ed pieces.
I agree, there's a lot of value in forcing people to be concise.
That said, it also privileges readily-echoes soundbytes over discussion. This has the side effect of wrecking discussion.
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#73I like Twitter because it forces people to be concise. There are already plenty of places on the web where people can post long thoughtful articles or op-ed pieces.
It forces people to not write a complex English sentence, is what it does. You literally can't express complex thought without multi-tweeting. Which is annoying. There's concision, and then there's nuking the concept of the paragraph. I for one welcome our new longer-Tweet overlords.
The length of your entire message: 285 chars
Length of "You can't express complex thought without multi-tweeting": 56 chars (took "literally" out, because that's incorrect).
Re: Twitter Considering 10,000-Character Limit for Tweets
#74Earlier quoted context omitted.
It forces people to not write a complex English sentence, is what it does. You literally can't express complex thought without multi-tweeting. Which is annoying. There's concision, and then there's nuking the concept of the paragraph. I for one welcome our new longer-Tweet overlords.
The length of your entire message: 285 chars Length of " You can't express complex thought without multi-tweeting ": 56 chars (took " literally " out, because that's incorrect).
Is that "you can't", or "you can't"?
Re: Twitter Considering 10,000-Character Limit for Tweets
#75Earlier quoted context omitted.
It forces people to not write a complex English sentence, is what it does. You literally can't express complex thought without multi-tweeting. Which is annoying. There's concision, and then there's nuking the concept of the paragraph. I for one welcome our new longer-Tweet overlords.
The length of your entire message: 285 chars Length of " You can't express complex thought without multi-tweeting ": 56 chars (took " literally " out, because that's incorrect).
Yes, thank you for the char-counting. I'm aware that my comment was not the height of profundity, nor was it particularly long. However, I do occasionally post more interesting things, and some of them need to be longer, because they discuss a complex issue or cite many facts. My comment was not intended to, in itself, justify the need for a longer Tweet length.
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#76Re: Twitter Considering 10,000-Character Limit for Tweets
#77Earlier quoted context omitted.
It forces people to not write a complex English sentence, is what it does. You literally can't express complex thought without multi-tweeting. Which is annoying. There's concision, and then there's nuking the concept of the paragraph. I for one welcome our new longer-Tweet overlords.
The length of your entire message: 285 chars Length of " You can't express complex thought without multi-tweeting ": 56 chars (took " literally " out, because that's incorrect).
>"You can't express complex thought without multi-tweeting"
This is not a complex thought.
Re: Twitter Considering 10,000-Character Limit for Tweets
#78I like Twitter because it forces people to be concise. There are already plenty of places on the web where people can post long thoughtful articles or op-ed pieces.
Furthermore generally, people don't use those platforms to post thoughtful articles.
Re: Twitter Considering 10,000-Character Limit for Tweets
#79Earlier quoted context omitted.
It forces people to not write a complex English sentence, is what it does. You literally can't express complex thought without multi-tweeting. Which is annoying. There's concision, and then there's nuking the concept of the paragraph. I for one welcome our new longer-Tweet overlords.
The length of your entire message: 285 chars Length of " You can't express complex thought without multi-tweeting ": 56 chars (took " literally " out, because that's incorrect).
This response tactic is tedious every time it comes up. "Tweets r 2 short" is never a valid complaint unless the limit is below 16 characters?
Re: Twitter Considering 10,000-Character Limit for Tweets
#80I like Twitter because it forces people to be concise. There are already plenty of places on the web where people can post long thoughtful articles or op-ed pieces.
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