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If this happens, Twitter will cease to be Twitter. In keeping with the bird analogy, messages will be that annoying parakeet in the pet store rather than sprin
by rjohnk 11y ago
If this happens, Twitter will cease to be Twitter.
In keeping with the bird analogy, messages will be that annoying parakeet in the pet store rather than spring time finches.
- adevine 11y agoI originally agreed with you, but after thinking about it I think the devil is in the details of how this is released. That is, Twitter's uniqueness is that it is geared towards short, real-time "bursts of consciousness", but people with lots of followers still occasionally put out long "blogs in tweet form" with multiple tweets. If Twitter keeps the focus on the short bursts, but still has a separate way to do "Twitter blogs" or whatever, I think it could work. If Twitter just unconditionally changes all Tweets to 10k it seems like it would kill what makes Twitter unique in the first place.
- jdmichal 11y agoCompletely non-sequitur fact, but maybe fun from a "hacker" perspective: Most parakeet cages I've seen in bird stores have a bell-in-a-ball type toy. Try picking it up and ringing it sometime. For some reason, all the parakeets will stop chattering as long as the bell is ringing.