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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 ElijahLynn »

troycarlson wrote: post #58
ElijahLynn wrote: post #40

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yeah, my first thought was "The Death of Twitter has been announced". Although, I left Twitter for G+ quite a while ago precisely because of the character limit.

If G+ serves as a valid alternative to Twitter for your needs then you were using Twitter differently than most. Twitter's value is in its network, not the ability to share longform content, and G+ can't touch Twitter as a social network.

Yeah, it was super bittersweet and still is. My developer circle is mostly on Twitter, which I still interact with from time to time, to see what is going on in that circle.

I just hate trying to micromanage my words and grammar sooo much.

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

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Post by nikdaheratik »

SFLemonade wrote: post #152
careersuicide wrote: post #81

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I'm going to go out on what might be something of a limb and suggest that perhaps Twitter is not the place for meaningful discussions, or even, discussion in general. Obviously there's no right or wrong way to use Twitter, but I generally don't follow people who do more than post inane status updates like "i love tacos lol" or links to mildly interesting news articles. For me at least, that's all I want Twitter to be…

I totally agree with you. I actually think that's what Twitter was originally intended for. But I can't help but think about how a huge portion of Twitter has just devolved into a community of angry, underinformed, unqualified pseudo-activists releasing their rage into the abyss. It's amazing how a completely absurd and incorrect statement can be liked and retweeted thousands of times just because it makes for a good…

I don't think it's become just the Social Activist Platform™. There are just alot of people who are very interested in politics that post on it. The same goes for gaming and music. Not so much books or tech.

The other thing it has going for it is it encourages immediacy, which makes it fun for sports fans and journalists love it for that as well. Which then leads to the modern "immediacy vs. accuracy" problem that broadcasting faces as well. The main reason politicians like it is because that's where the journalists are at.

I think you're putting too much on Twitter if you're trying to blame it for lowering the level of discourse, or for political mobbing of people online. So much of this is a broader symptom of the Internet being accessible to so many people who are enthused but not very informed. And it happens across platforms. Facebook is worse IMO as it really leads to the lowest common denominator of political nonsense being shared out.

TL;DR: Twitter is good if you want to find people who have common interests. Or want to find out more from celebs and/or creatives. Or just from more normal people who have a cool job. It's bad if you want to talk politics, but so is 90% of the Internet.

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

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Post by hyperdunc »

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.

I don't feel sorry for them. Twitter is a great idea and valuable platform. It would be better implemented in a decentralized way - perhaps with it's own protocol.

By running it as a business and they're trying to force a square peg into a round hole and slowly undermining its value.

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

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Post by JetSpiegel »

personjerry wrote: post #184
altern8 wrote: post #170

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You don't necessarily have to write them yourself. You can just copy and paste from different sources multiple times a day.

Wait, are you telling me I can copy paste content on the Internet and get credit for it?

I believe this is called "Programming" in certain enterprise circles.

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

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Post by xerography »

altern8 wrote: post #170
AlwaysBCoding wrote: post #142

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…

You don't necessarily have to write them yourself. You can just copy and paste from different sources multiple times a day.

You don't necessarily have to write them yourself. You can just copy and paste from different sources multiple times a day.

(Sorry. I'll take your downboats and be on my way. I could not resist.)

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

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Post by Amir6 »

smt88 wrote: post #157
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…

> 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. So Twitter wants to be RSS with better discovery. If there were discovery and UX for blogs like there is for podcasts (Pocketcasts, Overcast, etc.), then Twitter wouldn't even have a leg up on RSS at all. I've often dreamed of a decentralized "Twitt…

The decentralized twitter idea is great! Better privacy and interconnectivity is even better!

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

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Post by upofadown »

AlwaysBCoding wrote: post #142

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…

People won't write long blog posts. Instead they will get drunk and write long LiveJournal posts.

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

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Post by vonklaus »

Amir6 wrote: post #238
smt88 wrote: post #157

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> 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. So Twitter wants to be RSS with better discovery. If there were discovery and UX for blogs like there is for podcasts (Pocketcasts, Overcast, etc.), then Twitter wouldn't even have a leg up on RSS at all. I've often dreamed of a decentralized "Twitt…

The decentralized twitter idea is great! Better privacy and interconnectivity is even better!

I don't get it. Twitter is a one to many broadcast channel. Its point is to be public. Privacy doesnt factor in. I think you could make a fake email, but twitter serves as a public channel so if you want privacy and twitter you are sort of asking for an sms message?
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