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

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Post by nitin_flanker »

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…

Agree with you. Twitter is way more easy to skim than FB or LinkedIn.

To be honest, I find the limit of 140 characters as its best feature because it is something that forces me to distill my thoughts in as less words as possible. A kind of exercise.

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Post by chwood »

jasode wrote: post #4

Well... some back-of-the-envelope math. Assuming average characters-per-word of 4.5[1] and also add 1 for space/punctuation for a word unit of 5.5: 10000/5.5 = 1818 words. 1800 words @ 250 wpm average reading speed is ~7 minutes. A 10,000 char (7 minute article) expansion looks to me like a "micro-blogging" platform rather than "tweeting". I'm guessing it all goes back to Twitter trying many things to become bigger t…

The optimal content for a post on Medium (which sounds very similar to a 10,000 character limit Twitter) is 7 minutes.

I wonder how pissed Ev will be when his old company steals his new company's idea - especially if Jack Dorsey gets all the credit.

[1]https://medium.com/data-lab/the-optimal-post-is-7-minutes-74...

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Post by hedonagenda »

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 existing users will preserve the character of twitter as new users arrive(http://i.snag.gy/kdu77.jpg).

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Post by [deleted] »

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…

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Post by AndrewKemendo »

prawn wrote: post #126
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 thing I've wanted to see tried with Twitter is the idea that you have your typical stream of tweets (vertical), but that any tweet can have depth (by swiping horizontally). Your "my thoughts" example would indicate "1/8" automatically, updating as it was created. Means that someone can read as usual, or delve for the full series of tweets. They could provide an indication to the writer of what percentage of peopl…

Someone mocked that up a while back for a different app. I remember seeing the video for it come back up not long ago.

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Post by tomjen3 »

tedajax wrote: post #137

Good. My biggest issue with Twitter's 140 character limit is it removes all opportunity for nuance. Within 140 characters you can just barely voice and opinion or thought in the most basic terms. Yes you can split your thoughts into multiple tweets but people will typically only focus on the first tweet that really expresses the basis of an idea and that's what will get shared the most. Allowing more wordy and nuance…

Many people make that argument. I find that it is a matter of how you normally write; not the value of it.

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Post by nl »

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…

I've often dreamed of a decentralized "Twitter" that allows you to subscribe to any Twitter, Facebook, or blogging feed and makes them all equal, first-class citizens (including the ability to reply/retweet/etc.)

aka FriendFeed/Google Buzz. Neither of which were at all successful or exist anymore.

The problem is that there is no incentive to use them as platforms. People just output their other primary sources through them, and then engage on their primary platform.

That makes them horrible for users (who write comments and never hear back).

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Post by passionfruit »

tuxracer wrote: post #260
mozumder wrote: post #42

Earlier quoted context omitted.

A lot of the characters could be separated out into their own data fields. There's no reason to have links & hashtags in the main character text.

#Then #people #would #just #write #really #long #tweets #like #this.

They could start counting hashtags against the character limit after a certain number of them.

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

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Post by dmingod666 »

Reminds me of a company that was doing innovation in radio and figured out a way to beam still images with the radio waves. Only problem is they were on their way to re-inventing TV if they did a little more innovation..

All that's needed now is markdown or html support...

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