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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 BinaryIdiot »

ldong wrote: post #4

The beauty of twitter is to tweet with concise messages. I'd be disappointed if this 140 characters restriction got removed.

Restrictions are not always good even if the ultimate goal is concise messages. It's hard finding anyone's twitter feed nowadays where people are not getting around the character limit by including screenshots of text. It's EVERYWHERE and it's not easily indexed to be searched.

They have to increase the limit otherwise people will get tired of using the workarounds (because, let's face it, it's practically impossible to have any kind of meaningful conversation at 140 characters at a time). It won't be to 5,000 but I would be surprised if they don't eventually go up to, say, 500 max.

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

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Post by dominotw »

ldong wrote: post #4

The beauty of twitter is to tweet with concise messages. I'd be disappointed if this 140 characters restriction got removed.

Agreed. This is a bad decision. Its always interesting to see how language and thought process changes when limited by the amount you can say.

If you are going include a link then you should be penalized since links are expensive tax for the readers.

Twitter's beauty was that it was easy to predict your mental tax you are going to pay for reading a tweet. Now its unpredictable.

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

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Post by flyt »

6stringmerc wrote: post #7

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.

I doubt it. The sharing models and overall experience of Snapchat sharing and Twitter are radically different and this doesn't change it in a meaningful way.

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

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Post by lucisferre »

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 like the way they expect this to be done now is by retweeting with a comment added. Though yes there is a case in the middle still supported by the "." technique and it is less than idea. I suppose you can't fix everything.

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

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Post by niccaluim »

eecks wrote: post #8

Will-this-be-the-new-hashtag.com

Long URLs are truncated and ellipsized, e.g.:

this-is-a-long-url-with-a-very-very-very-domain-name.com/and-a-sorta-long-path-component-but-still-long-enough-to-trigger-shortening

is displayed as

…with-a-very-very-very-domain-name.com/and-a-sorta-lo…

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

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Post by mavrc »

ldong wrote: post #4

The beauty of twitter is to tweet with concise messages. I'd be disappointed if this 140 characters restriction got removed.

I find it quite frustrating. I can easily say what I want on other platforms because I can write what I need to without worrying about every single word.

Twitter makes me stop and rewrite and rewrite and rewrite and finally get something that fits in 140 and makes sense for the most part after the third read if you understand me and all the context surrounding the thing I said.

I suppose it's at least partially generational for me but it seems so inelegant. Like we're in a global bit shortage.

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

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Post by nickfrostatx »

niccaluim wrote: post #26
eecks wrote: post #8

Will-this-be-the-new-hashtag.com

Long URLs are truncated and ellipsized, e.g.: this-is-a-long-url-with-a-very-very-very-domain-name.com/and-a-sorta-long-path-component-but-still-long-enough-to-trigger-shortening is displayed as …with-a-very-very-very-domain-name.com/and-a-sorta-lo…

Given how important domain names are for security, it would be concerning if domain names get truncated.

I could craft:

evil.net/this-is-a-very-very-long-path/bankofamerica.com/account-settings/blah/blah/blah

Which, depending on how this is implemented, might render to

...bankofamerica.com/account-settings/blah/blah/blah

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

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Post by notahacker »

nickfrostatx wrote: post #28
niccaluim wrote: post #26

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Long URLs are truncated and ellipsized, e.g.: this-is-a-long-url-with-a-very-very-very-domain-name.com/and-a-sorta-long-path-component-but-still-long-enough-to-trigger-shortening is displayed as …with-a-very-very-very-domain-name.com/and-a-sorta-lo…

Given how important domain names are for security, it would be concerning if domain names get truncated. I could craft: evil.net/this-is-a-very-very-long-path/bankofamerica.com/account-settings/blah/blah/blah Which, depending on how this is implemented, might render to ...bankofamerica.com/account-settings/blah/blah/blah

this horse bolted long ago with ubiquitous shortURL services

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

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Post by stephenitis »

msbarnett wrote: post #6
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.

I believe I was more commenting on the behavior of the period and @ ".@" to a average user I think the understanding the intention and the ability to quickly pick up this feature/behavorial cue is a toughie.
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