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I still don't understand why Twitter has not lifted the 140-char limit. Posterous, Tumblr, Google Buzz, Facebook all allow unlimited status update, along with pictures, links, videos posting. I'd love to see when Twitter can change.
I still don't understand why Twitter has not lifted the 140-char limit. Posterous, Tumblr, Google Buzz, Facebook all allow unlimited status update, along with pictures, links, videos posting. I'd love to see when Twitter can change.
Here is how you can make your longest tweet.
Just type this URI on your address bar http://twitter.com/share?text=&url=yourtext
Change yourtext to whatever you want (make it more lengthy and use whatever language you want) and bang! The longest tweet created! It's working simply because of the validation error in the url shortening of t.co, I reckon! Hope this might be fixed very soon. But, until then you can make longest tweets after all! Happy tweeting.. oh. happy looongest tweeting!!
It seems to be a auto-expansion of t.co links into text Twitter content inside other twitter posts.
I still don't understand why Twitter has not lifted the 140-char limit. Posterous, Tumblr, Google Buzz, Facebook all allow unlimited status update, along with pictures, links, videos posting. I'd love to see when Twitter can change.
Facebook has a 420-character limit on status updates, fwiw. Obviously more than 140-char, but I've been annoyed at times when I've wanted to post something more in the high-400s range.
What really annoys me about it is that they don't limit the characters in the text box - you can happily paste a novel in there if you want. Just when you go to post, an error that you're over the limit (at least they do say by how much).
It's clear that they use JS on the box (if you don't wait for the page to load, the box won't auto-expand as you type) - why they don't implement a simple script to stop typing beyond the limit is beyond me...
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Facebook has a 420-character limit on status updates, fwiw. Obviously more than 140-char, but I've been annoyed at times when I've wanted to post something more in the high-400s range.
Probably just the ADHD, but I find myself running past this limit all the time. What really annoys me about it is that they don't limit the characters in the text box - you can happily paste a novel in there if you want. Just when you go to post, an error that you're over the limit (at least they do say by how much). It's clear that they use JS on the box (if you don't wait for the page to load, the box won't auto-ex…
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Probably just the ADHD, but I find myself running past this limit all the time. What really annoys me about it is that they don't limit the characters in the text box - you can happily paste a novel in there if you want. Just when you go to post, an error that you're over the limit (at least they do say by how much). It's clear that they use JS on the box (if you don't wait for the page to load, the box won't auto-ex…
Because when I hit the limit I want to finish my sentence and then edit down to 140 characters, not be forced to edit down straight away and forget how I was going to finish my point.
I could see them not having a letter-count display shown by default (since most statuses are comfortably <420 chars), but it'd be nice if a "20 chars too long" thing appeared below the text box once you started typing too much.
In a mobile client it just shows up as 5 links: http://t.co/kzORDJY http://t.co/jVaqnZY http://t.co/0Vc4sGd http://t.co/339Lg4T http://t.co/72heLf0 It seems to be a auto-expansion of t.co links into text Twitter content inside other twitter posts.
Check my reply here http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1604037 Simple as that!
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Facebook has a 420-character limit on status updates, fwiw. Obviously more than 140-char, but I've been annoyed at times when I've wanted to post something more in the high-400s range.
Probably just the ADHD, but I find myself running past this limit all the time. What really annoys me about it is that they don't limit the characters in the text box - you can happily paste a novel in there if you want. Just when you go to post, an error that you're over the limit (at least they do say by how much). It's clear that they use JS on the box (if you don't wait for the page to load, the box won't auto-ex…
I'm thinking that once you've written out the text you seek some place to post it and so this sort of thing increases interactions on the site, after all you're already there - you make it into a message to several friends or start a page about it or whatever. Alternatively people put it on a blog and then link their blog into their profile in someway, again increasing the information available on that person, strengthening interactions and widening the link graph.
Just my initial thought, no inside info.
I still don't understand why Twitter has not lifted the 140-char limit. Posterous, Tumblr, Google Buzz, Facebook all allow unlimited status update, along with pictures, links, videos posting. I'd love to see when Twitter can change.
It forces people to think about what they say and be concise. The limit defines Twitter. I hope they never drop it.