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.
But it won't stop people from screencapping text and posting it as an image.
Twitter Considering 10,000-Character Limit for Tweets
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#242How deep is the 140-character limit hard-coded or assumed throughout Twitter's codebase and beyond? How much would break if the Twitter front-end simply stopped limiting submissions to 140 characters? There is Twitter's web front-end, the server backend, Twitter's native apps, third-party clients, feed reading scripts, …
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#243this will be the real beginning of the end for twitter. stupid
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#244Other 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…
With this addition they will have officially become a user-focused Reddit. It's certainly not a bad thing but I doubt it's where the Twitter devs saw themselves heading. I'm sure people will continue to write 140 character messages but they'll probably become a minority over time. The bulk of tweets will just become title+link to external content or title+discussion starter.
Sounds more like tumblr than reddit.
I do think there is a tendency for social media sites to converge towards the same thing. As features are added, and limitations are removed, the lines between different types of sites begins to blur. Something that started as some simple niche site, starts allowing users to host content, create forums, have their own chat app, adds features from discussion sites, etc. Eventually we will end up with some kind of hyper-FaceTubeRedditumblrkype.
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#245Earlier quoted context omitted.
You don't necessarily have to write them yourself. You can just copy and paste from different sources multiple times a day.
I think the term of art in this case is "retweet".
Sadly it is pretty common that someone copy & paste some witty tweet and get attention. There's even a service to discover that. In Japanese it is called pakutsui (pakuri (= plagiarism) + tsui (= tweet)).
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#246I've never used twitter and don't understand the appeal at all. How can anything worthwhile be said in 150 characters? Even this comment comes in at 171 characters, jesus.
Re: Twitter Considering 10,000-Character Limit for Tweets
#247Other 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…
With this addition they will have officially become a user-focused Reddit. It's certainly not a bad thing but I doubt it's where the Twitter devs saw themselves heading. I'm sure people will continue to write 140 character messages but they'll probably become a minority over time. The bulk of tweets will just become title+link to external content or title+discussion starter.
> The bulk of tweets will just become title+link to external content or title+discussion starter.
This is already what the bulk of tweets are today. What Twitter (and Facebook) want is for people to not have to leave to read external content.
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#248If 140 characters was brilliant, than 10K characters is unbelievably brilliant.
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#249Earlier quoted context omitted.
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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#250I'd really like to be able to edit Tweets.