The new character count feels like they arbitrarily just doubled it.
Like Gob Bluth made this decision to be a better CEO than Michael.
"Oh yeah Michael I'm taking your 140 characters and DOUBLING IT!"
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#42I'll be impressed with Twitter when they actually show they care about the security and safety of their users by implemented end to end encryption for their DMs...
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#43I'm not sure what to make of this. I suppose there is nothing inherently ideal about the (arbitrary) 140 character limit on tweets. Why not 180, or 280, etc? Still, my first reaction was, this is .. a bad idea: the 140-character limit is iconic, it's at the core of their value proposition, and Twitter is going to dilute their brand if they abandon it. I think it's not only that people sometimes feel limited by the 14…
> the 140-character limit is iconic, it's at the core of their value proposition
It was related to the core of their value proposition when that was “microblogging that can be updated and recieved over SMS”. Now, its just legacy.
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#44Mastodon [0] has a default character limit of 500, which individual instances can turn up or down as they see fit (Mastodon is a federated network). Hundreds of thousands of people use it and the social dynamics work just fine, or even better, with the additional breathing room for expression. To me Twitter's attachment to such a low cap feels like an anachronism.
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#46Innovation!
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#47It is clear that people want to use Twitter to say things longer than 140 characters as the rise in popularity of long threaded Tweets would attest. It is just strange that Twitter would seemingly prefer to abandon their iconic 140 limit over making threading a native function of their platform.
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#48Good, I hope this spells the death of this horrifying product.
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#50@Jack said "Proud of how thoughtful the team has been in solving a real problem people have when trying to tweet. And at the same time maintaining our brevity, speed, and essence!"
https://twitter.com/jack/status/912784057863245824
How many people did it take to come up with double a char limit, and how is that 'thoughtful' or 'solving' anything? Total guff.
The start of the end of twitter hashtag hottake.