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I think they are going to eventually drop the limit for tweets and rebrand into a mico-blogging platform with a built in user base.. There will still be a char

by ProAm 11y ago

I think they are going to eventually drop the limit for tweets and rebrand into a mico-blogging platform with a built in user base.. There will still be a character limit probably in the mid hundreds, but it will help them monetize.

ryanSrich 11y ago
I don't use tumblr but someone told me that tubmlr is very similar to what you just described (sans the char limit) - from your point of view, why would twitter do this?
- rm_-rf_slash 11y ago
  Let's say photos and links were separate attachments. That way you could say just as much without having to compensate for the URL, even if it was condensed.
kachnuv_ocasek 11y ago
If they do, I (and I believe at least a dozen other people) will seriously consider terminating my presence on Twitter. I'm mostly a passive user anyway, and the recent (well, 2-3 years time frame) changes, such as moving pictures and "sponsored tweets" have been quite annoying. The forced conciseness of the tweets is the only thing that keeps me from pushing the button. Now, I know I sound like a grumpy old cat, but when some things change, they eventually end up being nothing like the original. Just compare that with Reddit or Hacker News, for instance. The basic laws (and even visuals, in the case of HN) have been the same for some years now, yet the community is thriving.
chipotle_coyote 11y ago
I don't think that's likely to be their direction; as another commenter observed, that's largely what Tumblr is, and Tumblr is pretty good at it. I expect Twitter's monetization efforts to move in the opposite direction, in a sense. Many Twitter users follow many more people than they have followers, which turns it into more of a broadcast medium than an interactive medium. Given that they're firmly committed to advertising as a primary revenue model, I'd expect them to be working furiously on recommendation engines to surface new content: not just users you might want to follow, but specific tweets (and Vines and Periscope videos and etc.). That, in turn, can be applied to native advertising.

by ProAm 11y ago

ryanSrich 11y ago

I don't use tumblr but someone told me that tubmlr is very similar to what you just described (sans the char limit) - from your point of view, why would twitter do this?

rm_-rf_slash 11y ago
Let's say photos and links were separate attachments. That way you could say just as much without having to compensate for the URL, even if it was condensed.

kachnuv_ocasek 11y ago

If they do, I (and I believe at least a dozen other people) will seriously consider terminating my presence on Twitter. I'm mostly a passive user anyway, and the recent (well, 2-3 years time frame) changes, such as moving pictures and "sponsored tweets" have been quite annoying. The forced conciseness of the tweets is the only thing that keeps me from pushing the button. Now, I know I sound like a grumpy old cat, but when some things change, they eventually end up being nothing like the original. Just compare that with Reddit or Hacker News, for instance. The basic laws (and even visuals, in the case of HN) have been the same for some years now, yet the community is thriving.

chipotle_coyote 11y ago

I don't think that's likely to be their direction; as another commenter observed, that's largely what Tumblr is, and Tumblr is pretty good at it. I expect Twitter's monetization efforts to move in the opposite direction, in a sense. Many Twitter users follow many more people than they have followers, which turns it into more of a broadcast medium than an interactive medium. Given that they're firmly committed to advertising as a primary revenue model, I'd expect them to be working furiously on recommendation engines to surface new content: not just users you might want to follow, but specific tweets (and Vines and Periscope videos and etc.). That, in turn, can be applied to native advertising.