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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
His comments about searching/highlighting imply that this feature might be like Medium.
I've begun wondering if there's a market for recreating original technologies that have evolved beyond their original intent. For example, a new site that allowed you to broadcast up to 140 character messages.
I keep joking to people that I want to start rotatedfloralheartbullet.com (.com), a social network where you're only allowed one character, but you have the whole unicode space to choose from.
To the people thinking 10,000 characters means suddenly everyone will write blog posts instead of tweets... Have you ever tried blogging? Writing blog posts is insanely hard and time consuming. You'd be an outlier if you could write one good blog post a day. It's not like every tweet is suddenly going to be an essay. More likely tweets will just be slightly longer (200 characters or something) and then there will be…
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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.
You have to turn off retweets manually for every single account you follow, unfortunately.
Your limit increases the more engagement you have.
Or maybe everyone starts off with 10k but the limit decreases based on engagement. Might be a way to reward people who create interesting content.
Although I'm sure someone at fiverr would be offering a service to counteract that idea via bots seconds afterwards.
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…
140c is great for one-liners and linkbait, which is - apparently - the main reason people read Twitter.
If it turns into a micro-blogging stream of extended self-expression, I think a lot of people won't have time for that.
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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.
You can express complex thought in short equations (and in fact it is often preferable), so why would it be the case that it couldn't be expressed in just 140 characters? It doesn't make sense.
If you want to prove me wrong, show me a complex thought expressed in 140 characters. Again, I agree that complex thought can result in a very interesting tweet, but the tweet will not be able to convey all the thought behind it.
Jack Dorsey just posted a longtweet-as-image which implies that the story is true: https://twitter.com/jack/status/684496529621557248 His comments about searching/highlighting imply that this feature might be like Medium.
> Given how much the best users of twitter hate the idea of a 10k char limit for tweets, it will definitely happen. :(
So as long as it's going to do it, can I request that it support Markdown? Medium doesn't really support it other than through an API.
Microsoft Word used to have a summarization engine. You could specify a maximum length, and it would remove sentences, in a surprisingly intelligent way, to get to that length. Twitter readers now need such a feature. Just because someone sends huge tweets doesn't mean they have to be displayed.
Imagine a satirical tweet with exactly the wrong "unnecessary" sentence removed. Suddenly your life is ruined because you said something that makes people angry.