The fact that it took this long for them to make such an obvious change speaks to how afraid they are (were?) to challenge core assumptions about the product.
Twitter to Stop Counting Photos and Links in 140-Character Limit
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#12The beauty of twitter is to tweet with concise messages. I'd be disappointed if this 140 characters restriction got removed.
if you include an image the limit is 120.
As a URL is some redirect service, I believe that drops the limit by 12 per url.
The 140 limit is not being removed
Re: Twitter to Stop Counting Photos and Links in 140-Character Limit
#13Re: Twitter to Stop Counting Photos and Links in 140-Character Limit
#14Will-this-be-the-new-hashtag.com
god-i-hope-not.com it-is-dns-noise.ugh
Re: Twitter to Stop Counting Photos and Links in 140-Character Limit
#15This 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!"
When Twitter first started, @replies went to everyone like you propose, and they changed to the current model.
Re: Twitter to Stop Counting Photos and Links in 140-Character Limit
#16This 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!"
Much earlier in Twitter's history, there was a setting you could change to either show or hide conversations between people you followed and ones you didn't; they took it away on purpose. Personally I think quoting tweets and responding in there is the best way to reply to something publicly, but regardless, they aren't likely to change the @-reply behavior at this point.
Re: Twitter to Stop Counting Photos and Links in 140-Character Limit
#17This 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 agree because most people use Twitter where they replace a person's name with @personsname so they get a notification of it. Referring to people should work like this in my opinion. Honestly it should notify you even if an @ wasn't included similar to how hashtags essentially don't matter anymore.
Edit: seems people disagree with me.
You can't create a feature that limits natural parts of speech. It's just simply not a good user experience. For instance let's say I want to talk about how awesome someone is. Or hell I simply want to introduce one person to another. It may be natural for me to say "Person A, I would like you to meet Person B". That's simply not possible with how replies are currently setup so you have to put a character in front or re-word it.
Yes re-wording is viable but why should someone change the way they converse only so their intended audience can reach them? That is not a good user experience.
What Twitter needs to do is allow you to send a message out to everyone, even if it starts with a user reference, like it used to be. The rub is changing the way conversations work. Conversations are frustrating as hell on Twitter. They need to rework them so that it doesn't rely on an @user but instead thread them. There is a difference between regular messages and a threaded one.
A threaded conversation could also make it easier to link to different conversations people have. Right now it's just jumbled into one huge, stupid pile of crap that's not easy to sort through.
Re: Twitter to Stop Counting Photos and Links in 140-Character Limit
#18This 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.
Right, this is very much a feature not a bug. I have friends who do corporate customer service through Twitter and the feed would be a disaster if every response or "@" to someone was in the main stream of tweets.
It still shows up if two people you follow are @ing each other, which is a great way to jump into the conversation if desired.
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#19The beauty of twitter is to tweet with concise messages. I'd be disappointed if this 140 characters restriction got removed.
that beauty has turned tweets into incomprehensible multitweets and images of text.
what i don't understand is why they haven't built long-form notes that can be inserted into a tweet, just like images can be inserted.
Re: Twitter to Stop Counting Photos and Links in 140-Character Limit
#20I hope they only zero-count the first link. That allows 140 characters of commentary + the link and limits abuse.