Giving you more characters

Post by saganus » Tue, Sep 26, 2017, 11:12 PM UTC

whywhywhywhy wrote: post #166

aaron-lebo wrote: post #66

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Hey man, Jack's been putting in 23 hour days for the last seven years to make this happen. Not cool to mock his effort. But seriously that Tweet shows the usefulness. For them not to have tried it until now shows how scared they are to make any real changes. 1) Guess 2) this 3) doesn't 4) fix 5) this 6) nonsense? Those comments are absolute youtube quality cancer though. Goddamn tragedy that this is the pinnacle of h…

Worst thing Twitter ever did was teach you what people you once respected are really like. Can't believe I ever looked up to him.

Post by tagawa » Tue, Sep 26, 2017, 11:16 PM UTC

microcolonel wrote: post #146

aaron-lebo wrote: post #118

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Yeah, it's a parody, but why after a decade has Twitter not figured out a way to avoid giving the trolliest of trolls such exposure? It seems like 140, 200, 280, or 500 chars is the smallest and least of their problems.

For whatever reason, they do not look into impersonation reports at all. Their team is too focused on deciding the content of people's speech that it doesn't care about their actions.

Post by betterunix2 » Tue, Sep 26, 2017, 11:17 PM UTC

phailhaus wrote: post #79

SquareWheel wrote: post #69

Lots of cynicism around here. For me, the 140 character limit really was very frustrating. I tweet rarely, but when I do I often spend 2-3 minutes trying to fit the message into the character limit. Often I just abandon it completely because there's no way to make it fit without having to send multiple messages. This change seems completely reasonable to me, if not a bit delayed.

I don't know...the 140 character limit forced you to be creative in how you condensed your thoughts, but it also provided an easy-to-consume stream of content for readers. My fear is that by doubling the limit, that stream is going to take more effort to consume and lose its differentiation from Facebook.

Post by Overtonwindow » Tue, Sep 26, 2017, 11:19 PM UTC

lossolo wrote: post #58

ppod wrote: post #33

In an effort to get people to look into each other’s eyes more, and also to appease the mutes, the government has decided to allot each person exactly one hundred and sixty-seven words, per day. When the phone rings, I put it to my ear without saying hello. In the restaurant I point at chicken noodle soup. I am adjusting well to the new way. Late at night, I call my long distance lover, proudly say I only used fifty-…

Really powerful text. Can't remember when last time couple of words touched me like those.

Post by betterunix2 » Tue, Sep 26, 2017, 11:20 PM UTC

nradov wrote: post #137

hk__2 wrote: post #77

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> And 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 The blog post explains how that’s not true with their Japanese example: > Our research shows us that the character limit is a major cause of frustration for people Tweeting in English, but it is not for those Tweeting in Japanese. If Japanes…

The point is that their analysis is garbage. They looked at the length of tweets, and what percentage of tweets hit the 140 character limit. But the reality is that users impacted by the limit either send multiple tweets (1/n, 2/n, ... n/n) or attach an image containing a block of text. How do you measure that?