So they are making the roads wider, which will only increase pollution. Twitter's one saving grace was it at least enforced some concision to the tides of ill-informed opinion.
Giving you more characters
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#103We don't need 140 characters. They could solve this a dozen other ways including:
* Not counting links as characters.
* Not including images as characters.
* Improving tweet-storm capabilities.
* Improve threading + response mechanisms.
This is the easiest + worst improvement they could do. I hope it's not permanent.
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#104this basically reads as: "We didn't grow at all last quarter, but things here at Twitter are A-OKAY (please belive us)! We can still grow, all we need to do is destroy/modify the one thing that made us unique and successful!"
If the only thing that makes you unique and successful is a technical limitation that dates back to text messages, it’s probably time to move on.
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#105Peter Theil once said "We wanted flying cars, instead we got 140 characters". Looks like that 140 characters limit have now doubled.
Peter Thiel also said that
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#106I've always thought they should charge 10 cents per extra character over 140.
Trying to eliminate 1 or 2 letters is exhausting - I would often pay 10 or 20 cents just for the convenience.
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#107Japanese/Chinese only “fit” in 140 because of the way they count “characters”. 280 for alphabetic languages seems roughly equivalent.
A Chinese character is much more dense than two roman letters. When I was texting in china during the SMS phase, I got around 16 or maybe 20 characters before it was broken into extra messages.
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#108@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.
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…
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#109Twitter should have subscription plans that correlate to the number of characters you can use.
280 = free tier
1000 = $0.99 per month
2500 = $1.99 per month
5000 = $2.99 per month
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#110We don't need 140 characters. They could solve this a dozen other ways including: * Not counting links as characters. * Not including images as characters. * Improving tweet-storm capabilities. * Improve threading + response mechanisms. This is the easiest + worst improvement they could do. I hope it's not permanent.
* Improving tweet-storm capabilities.
That's what they just did.
* Not counting links as characters.
Oh, think of the spam.