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Twitter Considering 10,000-Character Limit for Tweets

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Re: Twitter Considering 10,000-Character Limit for Tweets

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Post by michaelmrose »

colmvp wrote: post #59

I 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 - Write simple sentence bereft of complexity and nuance. - Split the same thought over multiple tweets hurting continuity - Use url shorteners making it harder to discern the source before you click - Write their long post on their blog and tweet the link to it.

This post describing the limitations and disadvantages of the twitter character limit couldn't have been tweeted!

Re: Twitter Considering 10,000-Character Limit for Tweets

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Post by JayHost »

fideloper wrote: post #71
cpeterso wrote: post #62

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.

How about the long form tweets get turned into pictures so no rules are broken and TLDR is obvious? Otherwise limit of 1 like pinned tweet.

Re: Twitter Considering 10,000-Character Limit for Tweets

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Post by homulilly »

cdnsteve wrote: post #89

The problem isn't character limit. The problem is missing interesting Tweets. My timeline is flooded with new tweets. Better flagging to read later, algorithms that say you might find this most interesting, filtering would be welcome and are needed.

Filtering options would be nice but the lack of algorithms deciding what to show me is exactly why I use twitter over facebook and I already hate their occasional recommended tweets.

Re: Twitter Considering 10,000-Character Limit for Tweets

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Post by michaelmrose »

evanpw wrote: post #96
cpeterso wrote: post #62

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.

The best suggestion I've seen is 1¢ for the 141st character, 2¢ for the 142nd, 4¢ for the 143rd, etc. Going slightly over 140 costs a trivial amount, but it would be stupidly expensive to tweet anything really long. EDIT: I found where I stole this idea from: http://www.interfluidity.com/v2/6207.html

Nobody would pay for this. They would just continue writing blog posts and linking them on twitter

Re: Twitter Considering 10,000-Character Limit for Tweets

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Post by dudul »

theseatoms wrote: post #83
bad_user wrote: post #73

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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).

"Literally" is not incorrect. http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/literally "Literally" can mean "virtually," or "figuratively."

From your link: "Since some people take sense 2 to be the opposite of sense 1, it has been frequently criticized as a misuse. Instead, the use is pure hyperbole intended to gain emphasis, but it often appears in contexts where no additional emphasis is necessary."

Seems literally incorrect to me.

Re: Twitter Considering 10,000-Character Limit for Tweets

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Post by tmalsburg2 »

Kalium wrote: post #72
colmvp wrote: post #59

I 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.

Easy solution: charge users per character. I would happily pay.

Re: Twitter Considering 10,000-Character Limit for Tweets

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Post by JayHost »

CrowFly wrote: post #90

I feel bad for Twitter because they have a popular product that's hard to monetize. That being said, I wonder if any of the Twitter execs who think of this stuff actually use Twitter.

In this case monetization = taking advantage of the user. I don't feel bad. I like twitter. I don't want to be the product.

That said they started emailing me profiles that I viewed and didn't follow which feels invasive.

Re: Twitter Considering 10,000-Character Limit for Tweets

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Post by michaelmrose »

bmm6o wrote: post #79
bad_user wrote: post #73

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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?

This is a non argument. Dismissing an argument out of hand as invalid because you say so adds nothing to the discussion. Feel free to expand that to an actual argument

Re: Twitter Considering 10,000-Character Limit for Tweets

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Post by michaelmrose »

mason240 wrote: post #77
bad_user wrote: post #73

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

Which doesn't make it wrong.
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