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Twitter to Stop Counting Photos and Links in 140-Character Limit

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Re: Twitter to Stop Counting Photos and Links in 140-Character Limit

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Post by stephenitis »

This is long over due. Can they fix this...

When a Tweet starts with a @username, the only users who will see it in their timeline (other than the sender and the recipient) are those who follow both the sender and the recipient.

".@someone Hello I want to respond to you but in public!"

Re: Twitter to Stop Counting Photos and Links in 140-Character Limit

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Post by msbarnett »

stephenitis wrote: post #2

This is long over due. Can they fix this... When a Tweet starts with a @username, the only users who will see it in their timeline (other than the sender and the recipient) are those who follow both the sender and the recipient. ".@someone Hello I want to respond to you but in public!"

That's not a bug/something that needs fixing? The exponential increase in noise would make twitter even less useful.

The last thing my timeline needs is to see all of the crap the people I follow are saying to people I don't care to follow.

Re: Twitter to Stop Counting Photos and Links in 140-Character Limit

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Post by 6stringmerc »

Could this be seen as some kind of attempt to hold-off Snapchat/Instagram photo-sharing competition and keep attention in their platform? Personally I don't like the image taking away from the limit, feeling pretty indifferent on the links part. Overall my impression is that this would be a reasonable change, whereas taking a hammer to the 140 limit as a general concept might not be a proper avenue.

Re: Twitter to Stop Counting Photos and Links in 140-Character Limit

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Post by andyfleming »

stephenitis wrote: post #2

This is long over due. Can they fix this... When a Tweet starts with a @username, the only users who will see it in their timeline (other than the sender and the recipient) are those who follow both the sender and the recipient. ".@someone Hello I want to respond to you but in public!"

I feel the opposite. I think this system works well. I find it easy to view a conversation with @replies when I want to. The rest of the time I don't want to see misc conversational tweets. There are more elegant ways to respond too, like "That's a great point @andyfleming".
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