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Giving you more characters
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#12And in a few more years they'll increase the limit to 560 characters, and so on. Users will just continue to bypass any limit by tweeting images containing large blocks of text which is worse for everyone than just removing length limits.
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#13The analysis was really interesting. I wonder if there's cultural bias as well - i.e. English speakers tend to be more verbose because we have a need to speak more
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#14External links shouldn't also take any characters in Twitter. It should be a separate data field, like images are right now.
Also, I'm not sure why there isn't a separate expanded post field as well. Use the twitter feed for your headlines to a post.
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#15This seems rash. I feel like you should have to select something in order to have a 280 character tweet. I think the reason Twitter has worked is because of the constraints and the creativity working around said constraints. By opting everyone in immediately, I feel there may be some culture shock.
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#16Good.
Twitter needs to keep moving forward. There have been several features that feel like the core of their platform, but based on their revenue growth, they may be holding them back. Personally, eh, 280-length tweets feel weird and long and I don't see the need, but I'll probably get over it. If they can change how Twitter is used open up new audiences and conversations, this is good.
They are trying something big, and that is Good.
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#17Peter Theil once said "We wanted flying cars, instead we got 140 characters". Looks like that 140 characters limit have now doubled.
Peter Theil says lots of things.
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#18This type of announcement needs to come from the CEO, not a product manager.
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#19Presumably there are going to be a lot of broken 3rd party plugins on people’s sites(design wise at a minimum).
Should there have been more of a warning period?
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#20This seems rash. I feel like you should have to select something in order to have a 280 character tweet. I think the reason Twitter has worked is because of the constraints and the creativity working around said constraints. By opting everyone in immediately, I feel there may be some culture shock.
Which is why they aren't doing that...
"Although we feel confident about our data and the positive impact this change will have, we want to try it out with a small group of people before we make a decision to launch to everyone"
I feel like this could be a good change, looking forward to seeing how it goes either way.