Giving you more characters

#1

Post by coloneltcb » Tue, Sep 26, 2017, 9:02 PM UTC

Re: Giving you more characters

#2

Post by auvi » Tue, Sep 26, 2017, 9:14 PM UTC

Peter Theil once said "We wanted flying cars, instead we got 140 characters". Looks like that 140 characters limit have now doubled.

#3

Post by aarestad » Tue, Sep 26, 2017, 9:16 PM UTC

All of Twitter has immediately gone for the "I would rather have no Nazis" joke.

#4

Post by georgestephanis » Tue, Sep 26, 2017, 9:18 PM UTC

Here comes the shark jump!

#5

Post by nafey » Tue, Sep 26, 2017, 9:18 PM UTC

That's a bold move by Twitter. I can't help but feel it is out of desperation

#6

Post by Kenji » Tue, Sep 26, 2017, 9:21 PM UTC

With the ever dropping attention spans of people, one would think they'd rather go down to 70 characters per tweet.

#7

Post by thebiglebrewski » Tue, Sep 26, 2017, 9:21 PM UTC

Lmao. This isn't what's going to save Twitter.

#8

Post by covercash » Tue, Sep 26, 2017, 9:21 PM UTC

aarestad wrote: post #3

All of Twitter has immediately gone for the "I would rather have no Nazis" joke.

Is it a joke?

#9

Post by aarestad » Tue, Sep 26, 2017, 9:22 PM UTC

covercash wrote: post #8

aarestad wrote: post #3

All of Twitter has immediately gone for the "I would rather have no Nazis" joke.

Is it a joke?

In the "ha ha only serious" vein, I suppose.

#10

Post by agumonkey » Tue, Sep 26, 2017, 9:22 PM UTC

Reading the 280 test page feels odd. It kills the instantaneous feel of 140chars. The 280 ones feel like engaging a different part of your brain.

I think they should try to allow easier creation and reading of "thread" (when one user starts a long stream, while keeping the 140 char base.