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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 kriro »

gregmac wrote: post #100
chris_wot wrote: post #69

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Whilst Twitter has someone tweet the occasional gem, it's genuinely few and far between. I honestly feel that the format was great when it was only really programmers who used it (and even then I'm not so sure...) but limiting people to 140 characters, even discounting images and links, means most people can't convey views on most complex issues. I have an unpopular view, but I'm firmly of the belief that all Twitter…

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…

That has been my observation as well. It's quite useful as an segregator for local information. Probably because of the character limitation. I think there's a psychological positive to it as in "well I only have to type about 140 characters" (said the event organizer, police pr person, town hall person etc.)

The change will be nice because it'll hopefully be easy to parse the metadata for attachments (images, url) and it should be more elegant to handle them in general than regexping them out.

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

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Post by kriro »

CodeWriter23 wrote: post #73
harryh wrote: post #57

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It doesn't matter that you find it frustrating. It matters that by forcing you to be concise twitter improves the reader experience. Twitter is optimized for readers, not writers.

Twitter is optimized for superficial reading. Some ideas are more complicated than a one-liner.

For those you could write a normal blogpost and tweet the url and a 140 character -len(url) abstract.

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

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Post by simonswords82 »

hiram112 wrote: post #77

Real 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…

Twitter's onboarding process is a mess. Last time I checked they offer up some "famous" people for you to follow, and then leave you to it to work out how to extract value from the feed.

If you can be bothered to spend hours setting up lists and/or carefully curating who you follow you might be able to extract value from your feed. Failing that, a third party app like Tweetdeck might help. IMO all of this is too much hard work.

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

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Post by jacobush »

cynix wrote: post #135
dragontamer wrote: post #101

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The original example is gamefaqs introduction of edits. What is your shoe size? 11 Then the question changes to an age related question. What is the ideal age of a prostitute?

Fun fact: this particular example won't work in Japan, where typical shoe sizes are around 25–29.

But there the typical ... nah I won't go there.

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

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Post by c2340596 »

ludamad wrote: post #108
niccaluim wrote: post #34

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The domain and path are truncated separately. Your example would be displayed as evil.net/this-is-a-very-very-lo…

So evil-bank-of-america.net would do?

Evil bank is a tautology

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

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Post by lmm »

return0 wrote: post #58
qq66 wrote: post #51

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It's hard to blame them for that, though. They made a blog with a 140-character limit and it became one of the most valuable companies in the world. Who knows what it will become if they fiddle with anything?

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.

It was originally a blogging service - people would use it as an online diary (like livejournal) and follow personal friends. The broadcast/aggregation aspect came later.

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

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Post by lmm »

mavrc wrote: post #27
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 gener…

Isn't the solution to that not using Twitter? If you want Facebook/Google+/... you know where to find them; the 140-char thing is the whole point of Twitter.
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