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Re: Giving you more characters

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Post by baddox »

TheSpiceIsLife wrote: post #222
2muchcoffeeman wrote: post #168

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I think it's fairly reasonable to tweet condolences or important news. Twitter is widely used and as a government you probably want to spread information as quickly as possible. Tweets are probably made along side more traditional forms of communication. But Trump is just something else. The sheer lack of self control. This is not the behaviour of a leader of a first world nation or for that matter, an adult.

> This is not the behaviour of a leader of a first world nation or for that matter, an adult. This is factually incorrect.

It’s clear that the commenter is referring to expected or acceptable behavior of someone in that role. Like if a 30 year old human threw a hissy fit over not having enough cake to eat, you might say they’re not acting like an adult.

Re: Giving you more characters

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Post by Camillo »

nindalf wrote: post #316
athenot wrote: post #236

Earlier quoted context omitted.

As a Catholic nerd, I had to check. Yes. :) echo -n 'Hail Mary full of grace, the Lord is with thee. Blessed are thou amongst women and blessed is the fruit of thy womb, Jesus. Holy Mary, mother of God, pray for us sinners, now and at the hour of our death. Amen.' \ | wc -c 210

Does the regular prayer refer to the "hour of our death"? Or is this only for last rites?

Always.

Re: Giving you more characters

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Post by [deleted] »

madeofpalk wrote: post #78

Twitter seems to have the worst luck/timing when it comes to 'new features'. Last time it was Users: Please help get rid of these nazis Twitter: ROUND PROFILE PICS! this time its Users: Please help prevent nuclear war Twitter: HOW ABOUT LONGER TWEETS!

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Re: Giving you more characters

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Post by rconti »

onion2k wrote: post #313
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.

Making people stop and think, and sometimes abandon what they were going to say, is a really good aspect of Twitter.

Doesn't seem to be working, does it? I'm a fairly verbose person and nothing I ever want to say fits in 140 characters. And the stuff I see on twitter that DOES fit into 140, well, I'm typically better off not reading it. (222 characters)

Re: Giving you more characters

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Post by [deleted] »

blfr wrote: post #239
2muchcoffeeman wrote: post #168

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I think it's fairly reasonable to tweet condolences or important news. Twitter is widely used and as a government you probably want to spread information as quickly as possible. Tweets are probably made along side more traditional forms of communication. But Trump is just something else. The sheer lack of self control. This is not the behaviour of a leader of a first world nation or for that matter, an adult.

Trump leveraged a TV show and a Twitter account into the presidency beating two most powerful American political dynasties in the process. Why would you believe that his current tweets are caused by lack of self control?

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Re: Giving you more characters

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Post by daveFNbuck »

partiallypro wrote: post #318
Illniyar wrote: post #317

Sometimes, things that look obvious and simple require a lot of work and research to build so that it will fit the product and won't damage the community and momentum. This isn't one of those times. Seriously, what in the world took so long.

I wish it would take longer, because frankly it's a dumb idea. It defeats the purpose of Twitter.

Yet Twitter is much more popular in Japan, where the higher information density of the written language effectively gave them this feature from the start.

Re: Giving you more characters

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Post by rconti »

robtaylor wrote: post #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.

I'm unable to parse what is meant by "twitter hashtag hottake". If anything, hashtags are already overused on twitter, and I imagine this will make it worse (like the neverending stream of useless hashtags on instagram that nobody will ever ever search for). Are you saying the hashtag hottake is to use a single (?) hashtag to provide a meta-description of the content?

I think perhaps the problem is, try as I might, I can't really get my head around the term 'hot take' and it alway seems to lead me astray when I try to figure it out in a new context.

Re: Giving you more characters

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Post by Jaruzel »

orblivion wrote: post #61
dragonwriter wrote: post #43

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> 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.

Things fall into place by accident. I'd say there's no telling what would happen. Imagine what this is going to do to president Trump. His short quips had a striking impact. He'll never again need to end a message with the one word sentence "JOBS!"

I'd bet real money, that his account is that the front of the queue for this feature. We'll be seeing longer tweets from him imminently.
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