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.
If its such a obvious model why not create another obvious model and make billions?
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
#112Earlier quoted context omitted.
It wasn't really a blog though, right? Maybe it began as "a real-time blog aggregator, where blogs only have titles". I believe nowadays it's the network effect that keeps them, not the technology itself.
oblig: s/affect/effect/ Still I think the 140 character limit was in part due to their continued success; I know when I look at a tweet, I'm not going to get a 1000-word dissertatino on a subject - I will get bite-size pieces of info (for the most part, except for the multi-part diatribes or conversations, which I generally ignore). Link anxiety is a real thing - I'm less likely to click if it's going to absorb my at…
oblig pointing out of incorrect oblig correction. network effect[0] is absolutely correct.
edit: for the downvotes- [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Network_effect
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#113Earlier quoted context omitted.
Definitely twitter is entirely about who you follow. I tried it out early on, saw no value, and ignored it for a year or two, until a friend convinced me it has some value, and there are two uses I find. I follow several programmers (some internet famous, some merely who I've found from using a project they worked on or someone else's retweet), and through that, find it interesting to get a glimpse at what other peop…
What's the best strategy for avoiding harassment? I have a Twitter account, but very, very rarely use it. It's my biggest concern really. Knowing strategies to avoid just nasty people is the main issue I have with it. Like, if you go into Twitter and see that you have a whole bunch of Gamer Gayers targeting you (just an example, I can't see how I would be a target!) then I'd imagine having no Twitter would be prefera…
> Knowing strategies to avoid just nasty people
Perhaps refrain from using childish insults like Gamer Gayers. Like attracts like.
Re: Twitter to Stop Counting Photos and Links in 140-Character Limit
#114What I find stupid is that the length of usernames counts in the message. A message to @myfriend can be longer than a message to @myfriendblessednaycursedwithalongername
@Im @guessing @its @because @you @could @get @around @the @message @size @limits @if @at @marks @did @not @count @against @your @total @size?
Re: Twitter to Stop Counting Photos and Links in 140-Character Limit
#115Re: Twitter to Stop Counting Photos and Links in 140-Character Limit
#116The 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 gener…
I feel really stupid when I try to read tweets because half the time I can't figure out what it actually being said because either there is context missing or there are odd abbreviations... or idk... :(
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#117Real question. I avoided Twitter for years, and finally bit the bullet recently. The problem is my feed is out of control. Is there a way to filter it? For example, I want to only match the travel deals by regex (my city), the politics stuff by popularity, etc. I was under the impression that Twitter closed off their API to 3ed parties, so maybe this is no longer possible. On a side note, my current company recently…
Check out Tweetdeck's search columns.
You can still write scripts that use the API. But it's rate-limited.
Re: Twitter to Stop Counting Photos and Links in 140-Character Limit
#118Earlier quoted context omitted.
Definitely twitter is entirely about who you follow. I tried it out early on, saw no value, and ignored it for a year or two, until a friend convinced me it has some value, and there are two uses I find. I follow several programmers (some internet famous, some merely who I've found from using a project they worked on or someone else's retweet), and through that, find it interesting to get a glimpse at what other peop…
What's the best strategy for avoiding harassment? I have a Twitter account, but very, very rarely use it. It's my biggest concern really. Knowing strategies to avoid just nasty people is the main issue I have with it. Like, if you go into Twitter and see that you have a whole bunch of Gamer Gayers targeting you (just an example, I can't see how I would be a target!) then I'd imagine having no Twitter would be prefera…
You don't have to actually post anything. I use Twitter to consume information, not to blast it. Sometimes I'll retweet a project or maybe post an interesting bit of code, but that's unlikely to attract any negative attention. Avoid posting or retweeting contentious information, you'll be fine.
Re: Twitter to Stop Counting Photos and Links in 140-Character Limit
#119Also, I think Unicode characters only count as one character. This is now totally disconnected from SMS.
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#120Earlier quoted context omitted.
@Im @guessing @its @because @you @could @get @around @the @message @size @limits @if @at @marks @did @not @count @against @your @total @size?
http://but.you.can.also.do.it.with/url?so&what&the#point
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