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Well... some back-of-the-envelope math. Assuming average characters-per-word of 4.5[1] and also add 1 for space/punctuation for a word unit of 5.5: 10000/5.
by jasode 11y ago
Well... some back-of-the-envelope math. Assuming average characters-per-word of 4.5[1] and also add 1 for space/punctuation for a word unit of 5.5:
10000/5.5 = 1818 words.
1800 words @ 250 wpm average reading speed is ~7 minutes.
A 10,000 char (7 minute article) expansion looks to me like a "micro-blogging" platform rather than "tweeting". I'm guessing it all goes back to Twitter trying many things to become bigger than traditional Twitter. Hence the previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10513237 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10513237
(It goes without saying that not every "mega" tweet will use all 10,000 chars.)
[1]https://www.google.com/search?q=average+characters+per+word https://www.google.com/search?q=average+characters+per+word
- AndrewKemendo 11y agoFWIW Twitter was always considered a "micro-blogging" platform. Perhaps that's what you meant. http://www.extremetech.com/internet/79260-four-microblogging-sites-reviewed http://www.extremetech.com/internet/79260-four-microblogging...
- justJanne 11y agoBy the way, your statistics are for English. For German, where we have 14.3 characters per word on average[1], we get: 10'000/14.8 = 676 words. 676 words @ 250 wpm is 2 Minutes 42 Seconds. A 2½ Minute article is very short, like a short comment in a newspaper, and would fit very well into a microblogging site. [1] http://www.duden.de/sprachwissen/sprachratgeber/durchschnittliche-laenge-eines-deutschen-wortes http://www.duden.de/sprachwissen/sprachratgeber/durchschnitt...
- derefr 11y agoI would think max wpm should go down as word-length increases, no?
- Zitrax 11y agoWouldn't average characters per sentence be a slightly better measure? In German and other Germanic languages it's common with compounded words, thus word XY seem long but would in English just be written as X Y.
- kuschku 11y agoProbably, but then, on Twitter, people abbreviate words in english or leave them out in ways that aren’t possible in German. It’s hard when you need 3 or 4 tweets for a simple sentence explaining why Sony DCP projectors used to be easier for piracy than competing products.
- chwood 11y agoThe optimal content for a post on Medium (which sounds very similar to a 10,000 character limit Twitter) is 7 minutes. I wonder how pissed Ev will be when his old company steals his new company's idea - especially if Jack Dorsey gets all the credit. [1]https://medium.com/data-lab/the-optimal-post-is-7-minutes-74b9f41509b https://medium.com/data-lab/the-optimal-post-is-7-minutes-74...