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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 Macacity »

clumsysmurf wrote: post #97
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.

It would be nice if we could somehow follow based on more specific filters ... like combination of user and topic. Recently I wanted to follow a well known Java Evangelist, but their Java tweets were mixed with lots of politics tweets. Even though I agreed with the politics, I only wanted to read the Java related stuff - but it was like drinking from a firehose so I gave up. And also being able to disable retweets fo…

you might like google+, where you can follow collections in which a user posts only posts about one theme.

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

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Post by teaneedz »

nikolay wrote: post #44

I 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 shor…

it's what gave Twitter it's identity and allowed me to discover valuable information quickly. sticking a read more button to expand a tweet is just lazy and bad UX but worse, alters the fundamental usefulness of Twitter for me. it basically breaks the reading experience while introducing a host of issues and unnecessary friction. I'll surely alter my usage as well. I post way less now because of all of this AB testing and lack of product leadership.

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

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Post by resca79 »

Twitter is considering to allow message longest that 140, but I don't think that the problem is the character limit for the kind of interaction of twitter users. There are other problems not so big but that make the user experience not fluent for a simple app like Twitter.

Writing posts with more that 140 can potentially get many FB users, nevertheless TW should take care of the its current users. I notice many incoherences of the web app, for instance the top menu, on left where pop/up and navigation are mixed.

Second, the mobile app is very wired I receive notifications about message or followers that appears on my notification tabs randomly.

In conclusion, I love TW and I'm not a FB user, but I'm honest my twitter timeline is a bunch of Ads and I follow Twitter just because I love the concept of it.

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

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Post by lcnmrn »

bad_user wrote: post #16

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.

640 characters limit is perfect on Sublevel. The average number of characters per post on Sublevel is the same as Facebook. You can see more statistic on the about page.

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

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Post by baddox »

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

Ah yes, only $100k for a 160 character tweet.

Edit: mental math botched. I thought I remembered the powers of 2 better than I actually did. 160 characters would be about 10k, and 100k would buy you a whopping 163 characters.

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

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Post by prawn »

dacox wrote: post #93
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.

I still don't really understand Twitter. I have an account and have followed ~50 people and organizations I find interesting, and all I see is floods of re-tweets of people I have no interest in.

They don't think you are following enough people. Tough luck if you disagree. Nail for their coffin, IMO.

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

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Post by jsprogrammer »

dangoor wrote: post #33

Other commenters seem to be missing a critical point here: tweets continue to have a 140 character display with some sort of "read more" that you click to see the rest. To me, that actually sounds pretty great. One thing that's nice about Twitter is that it's fairly skimmable. All of those "1/ Some thought", "2/ some thought continued" threads damage that. Combining them into a "My thoughts on... read more" tweet wou…

One more click to get to content. Millenias worth of clickbait scrolling. Why not summarize Medium articles into 140 characters and slap on a multiplexed feed?

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

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Post by baddox »

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.

And yet that very comment of yours is 164 characters. Do you consider your own comment to be excessively wordy? I don't.

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

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Post by lightbright »

baddox wrote: post #115
evanpw wrote: post #96

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

Ah yes, only $100k for a 160 character tweet. Edit: mental math botched. I thought I remembered the powers of 2 better than I actually did. 160 characters would be about 10k, and 100k would buy you a whopping 163 characters.

No, like 50 cents.

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

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Post by tomswartz07 »

baddox wrote: post #115
evanpw wrote: post #96

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

Ah yes, only $100k for a 160 character tweet. Edit: mental math botched. I thought I remembered the powers of 2 better than I actually did. 160 characters would be about 10k, and 100k would buy you a whopping 163 characters.

If they make the limit infinite, you'd end up being paid -1/12 of a cent.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w-I6XTVZXww

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