If this happens, Twitter will cease to be Twitter.
In keeping with the bird analogy, messages will be that annoying parakeet in the pet store rather than spring time finches.
Twitter Considering 10,000-Character Limit for Tweets
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#12I think they should increase their character limit linearly with time. Kinda like Gmail storage back in the day. Twitter wouldn't be twitter without short messages. Or maybe allow users to skip the limit once a day.
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#13We already have that - it is called tumblr. Also the social media outragists will have slightly harder time pulling things out of context - think about all the other media which income comes from producing outrage over tweets ...
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#14Well... some back-of-the-envelope math. Assuming average characters-per-word of 4.5[1] and also add 1 for space/punctuation for a word unit of 5.5: 10000/5.5 = 1818 words. 1800 words @ 250 wpm average reading speed is ~7 minutes. A 10,000 char (7 minute article) expansion looks to me like a "micro-blogging" platform rather than "tweeting". I'm guessing it all goes back to Twitter trying many things to become bigger t…
FWIW Twitter was always considered a "micro-blogging" platform. Perhaps that's what you meant.
http://www.extremetech.com/internet/79260-four-microblogging...
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#15I think they should have a weekly character limit and let users use those characters as they want. That way you get a limit to prevent just reams and reams of characters in tweets, but allow flexibility with how you tweet.
I like this idea, or let users filter by what they want to see. 200 character, 500 character, 5000 character. It still seems like twitter is trying to find their niche. The 140 character limit is long past its purpose, but it's also kind of a defining characteristic of twitter. It forces brief comments and an easy-skim timeline, at the expense of real conversation or information exchange.
> The 140 character limit is long past its purpose
What was its purpose and why is it long past it?
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#16Twitter's limit is too low, but it does have a certain appeal, and I'm following a lot of smart people that express a lot in 140 chars. Would be happy if this limit was raised to 250 chars.
But raising to 10,000 chars would probably kill Twitter for me.
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#17I think they should have a weekly character limit and let users use those characters as they want. That way you get a limit to prevent just reams and reams of characters in tweets, but allow flexibility with how you tweet.
Why would Twitter implement a feature that makes you use the the service less after you've hit a quota?
The entire premise is based on quota!
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#18Meh, I doubt it would bring me back. 90% of my friends are on FB and the lack of a limit (or one I've ever hit) is quite nice. I'm able to write out full sentences with much less ambiguity or "text-speak" and while FB isn't my favourite company ever I'm going to go where my friends are at the end of the day. I don't write pages and pages or even multiple paragraphs most of the time but 1-2 sentences is normally not enough to express a full thought and because of that Twitter just doesn't work for me.
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#19Earlier quoted context omitted.
I like this idea, or let users filter by what they want to see. 200 character, 500 character, 5000 character. It still seems like twitter is trying to find their niche. The 140 character limit is long past its purpose, but it's also kind of a defining characteristic of twitter. It forces brief comments and an easy-skim timeline, at the expense of real conversation or information exchange.
> The 140 character limit is long past its purpose What was its purpose and why is it long past it?
It's purpose was to make tweets fit into SMS.
It's past its purpose because noone uses Twitter via SMS and people routinely circumvent it with text in images and multi-part tweets anyway.
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#20Earlier quoted context omitted.
I like this idea, or let users filter by what they want to see. 200 character, 500 character, 5000 character. It still seems like twitter is trying to find their niche. The 140 character limit is long past its purpose, but it's also kind of a defining characteristic of twitter. It forces brief comments and an easy-skim timeline, at the expense of real conversation or information exchange.
> The 140 character limit is long past its purpose What was its purpose and why is it long past it?
It's what fits in an SMS.