---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: piqd - your piqs of the day <[email protected]> Date: Thu, Sep 28, 2017 at 7:00 AM Subject: Twitter Decided To Double Its Character Limit To 280 To: Michel Bauwens <[email protected]> <https://www.piqd.com/> News from your channels Technology and society <https://www.piqd.com/technology-politics> <https://www.piqd.com/users/yavuz.baydar> piqer: Yavuz Baydar 5 <https://www.piqd.com/tracking/technology-politics/twitter-decided-to-double-its-character-limit-to-280?cid=627eed218b467b80645dd5ce5b66b877&ref=dailydigest&source=DailyDigestEmail&utm_campaign=viewpiq&utm_content=2017-09-28&utm_medium=email&utm_source=dailydigest> Twitter Decided To Double Its Character Limit To 280 <https://www.piqd.com/tracking/technology-politics/twitter-decided-to-double-its-character-limit-to-280?cid=627eed218b467b80645dd5ce5b66b877&ref=dailydigest&source=DailyDigestEmail&utm_campaign=viewpiq&utm_content=2017-09-28&utm_medium=email&utm_source=dailydigest> Phew. For many, it can be a cause for a sigh relief. Twitter has announced that the it has been testing a 280-character tweets, to give the users more space and flexibility to express themselves. “Our research shows us that the character limit is a major cause of frustration for people tweeting in English,” the company said in a blog post. “When people don’t have to cram their thoughts into 140 characters and actually have some to spare, we see more people Tweeting — which is awesome!” The current limit of 140 characters was inspired by SMS messages which by routine were limited to 160 characters. Twitter reserved the remaining 20 for the username. As often happens in creative mediums, the constraint spurred creativity, and Twitter became a fast-moving, newsy, jokey, weirdo playground. The new magic number 280 comes with a package of new questions. - Will those multi-message “tweetstorms” shrink into a smaller number of tweets, or will the expanded real estate encourage people to write even more - What new kinds of jokes and memes are possible at 280 characters that were not possible at 140? - Will 280 characters allow for just enough nuance and diplomacy that we may be able to avert global thermonuclear war? The answers, our friends, will be blowing in the big-size tweets. We will see what the new world will look like. <https://twitter.com/intent/tweet?text=Twitter%20Decided%20To%20Double%20Its%20Character%20Limit%20To%20280%20https%3A%2F%2Fwww.piqd.com%2Ftechnology-politics%2Ftwitter-decided-to-double-its-character-limit-to-280%3Futm_source%3DTwitter%26utm_medium%3Dsocial%26utm_campaign%3Dnewsletter_sharing%20via%20%40piqd_com%20by%20%40yavuzbaydar4> <https://www.facebook.com/sharer/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.piqd.com%2Ftechnology-politics%2Ftwitter-decided-to-double-its-character-limit-to-280%3Futm_source%3DFacebook%26utm_medium%3Dsocial%26utm_campaign%3Dnewsletter_sharing> <https://www.piqd.com/tracking/technology-politics/twitter-decided-to-double-its-character-limit-to-280?cid=627eed218b467b80645dd5ce5b66b877&ref=dailydigest&source=DailyDigestEmail&utm_campaign=viewpiq&utm_content=2017-09-28&utm_medium=email&utm_source=dailydigest> <https://www.piqd.com/tracking/technology-politics/twitter-decided-to-double-its-character-limit-to-280/original?cid=627eed218b467b80645dd5ce5b66b877&source=DailyDigestEmail> Source: Casey Newton | theverge.com on 09/26/2017 Twitter just doubled the character limit for tweets to 280 Read article <https://www.piqd.com/tracking/technology-politics/twitter-decided-to-double-its-character-limit-to-280/original?cid=627eed218b467b80645dd5ce5b66b877&source=DailyDigestEmail> Your newsletter Not enough information in your newsletter? Don't receive it often enough? Not enough to read? change now <https://www.piqd.com/settings> <https://www.facebook.com/727049527395062> <https://twitter.com/piqd_com> piqd GmbH | Widenmayerstr. 38 | 80538 Munich <https://maps.google.com/?q=Widenmayerstr.+38+%7C+80538+Munich&entry=gmail&source=g> Tel.: +49 (0) 8152 99 86 564 | Fax:+49 (0) 8152 9986571 | Email: [email protected] Managing director: Marcus von Jordan | Seat and court of jurisdiction: Munich HRB 217337 Tax number: 143/134/81256 | VAT numer: DE 300221320 Imprint <https://www.piqd.com/imprint> | Privacy <https://www.piqd.com/privacy> | Unsubscibe <https://www.piqd.com/settings/mail/token/cc8d4d3e2bb11eb2582646d8df9f8323725271cb6e02583f> -- P2P Foundation: http://p2pfoundation.net - http://blog.p2pfoundation.net Connect: http://p2pfoundation.ning.com; Discuss: http://lists.ourproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/p2p-foundation Updates: http://del.icio.us/mbauwens; http://friendfeed.com/mbauwens; http://twitter.com/mbauwens; http://www.facebook.com/mbauwens