[P2P-F] Fwd: Twitter Decided To Double Its Character Limit To 280
Michel Bauwens
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Fri Sep 29 08:29:44 CEST 2017
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Twitter Decided To Double Its Character Limit To 280
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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.
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Source: Casey Newton | theverge.com on 09/26/2017
Twitter just doubled the character limit for tweets to 280
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