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Twitter moves away from 140 characters, ditches confusing and restrictive rules

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Re: Twitter moves away from 140 characters, ditches confusing and restrictive rules

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Post by acaloiar »

I get why this is news to many people, but when you get down to it, a company removed its own arbitrary limitation. It's really difficult to give a shit about such things.

EDIT: I'm aware of the original reasoning for the limitation, so perhaps "arbitrary" is not the best adjective.

Re: Twitter moves away from 140 characters, ditches confusing and restrictive rules

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Post by giarc »

donretag wrote: post #13

"After all, Twitter is a great big, public conversational platform — the fact that you could follow chats between other users you cared about was part of its draw." Insane. For me it is the complete opposite. Having to read a personal conversation between two people is perhaps the primary reason I do not use Twitter. Far too much noise. And they should count hashtags as double (the other main reason why I cannot stan…

If you think twitter is bad for hashtags, I recommend staying away from Instagram.

Re: Twitter moves away from 140 characters, ditches confusing and restrictive rules

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Post by donretag »

giarc wrote: post #23
donretag wrote: post #13

"After all, Twitter is a great big, public conversational platform — the fact that you could follow chats between other users you cared about was part of its draw." Insane. For me it is the complete opposite. Having to read a personal conversation between two people is perhaps the primary reason I do not use Twitter. Far too much noise. And they should count hashtags as double (the other main reason why I cannot stan…

If you think twitter is bad for hashtags, I recommend staying away from Instagram.

Do not use Instagram either, but for other reasons. :)

I tried using Instagram. Downloaded the app and created an account. It promptly emailed everyone in my address book notifying them that I created an account. Deleted the app and my account. Never again.

Re: Twitter moves away from 140 characters, ditches confusing and restrictive rules

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Post by dang »

tptacek wrote: post #22

I don't know if this was the original Techcrunch title, but it is extraordinarily misleading. The proper title is the current article title: Twitter moves away from 140 characters, ditches confusing and restrictive rules

Thanks, we restored the original title.

Submitters: please do not rewrite titles unless they are misleading or linkbait: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Please especially don't rewrite them to make them more misleading and linkbait. (Submitted title was "Twitter ditches 140 character limit".)

Re: Twitter moves away from 140 characters, ditches confusing and restrictive rules

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Post by Tomte »

dang wrote: post #26
tptacek wrote: post #22

I don't know if this was the original Techcrunch title, but it is extraordinarily misleading. The proper title is the current article title: Twitter moves away from 140 characters, ditches confusing and restrictive rules

Thanks, we restored the original title. Submitters: please do not rewrite titles unless they are misleading or linkbait: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html Please especially don't rewrite them to make them more misleading and linkbait. (Submitted title was "Twitter ditches 140 character limit".)

Apropos character limits: maybe you could stop counting (2001) etc. towards the 80 character limit in submissions?

Because a few times I have left out the year since I couldn't find a good shorter title, and then you added the year afterwards. I would have done that myself. :-)

Re: Twitter moves away from 140 characters, ditches confusing and restrictive rules

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Post by dang »

Tomte wrote: post #27
dang wrote: post #26

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Thanks, we restored the original title. Submitters: please do not rewrite titles unless they are misleading or linkbait: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html Please especially don't rewrite them to make them more misleading and linkbait. (Submitted title was "Twitter ditches 140 character limit".)

Apropos character limits: maybe you could stop counting (2001) etc. towards the 80 character limit in submissions? Because a few times I have left out the year since I couldn't find a good shorter title, and then you added the year afterwards. I would have done that myself. :-)

We can't get around that limit any more than you can!

Currently the only thing that's allowed to exceed the limit is "[pdf]" but yes, it should probably include "(year)" and "[video]".

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