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Twitter's limit is too low, but it does have a certain appeal, and I'm following a lot of smart people that express a lot in 140 chars. Would be happy if this l
by bad_user 11y ago
Twitter's limit is too low, but it does have a certain appeal, and I'm following a lot of smart people that express a lot in 140 chars. Would be happy if this limit was raised to 250 chars.
But raising to 10,000 chars would probably kill Twitter for me.
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- Cakez0r 11y agoI don't think the size of tweets will have much of an effect on load. I imagine the bulk of the cost is in processing a request, rather than the size of it.
- minimaxir 11y agoThe amount of data/bandwidth used in 10K characters is far, far less than the amount used for videos/GIFs which anyone can upload now.
- ElijahLynn 11y agoYeah, my first thought was "The Death of Twitter has been announced". Although, I left Twitter for G+ quite a while ago precisely because of the character limit.
- troycarlson 11y agoIf G+ serves as a valid alternative to Twitter for your needs then you were using Twitter differently than most. Twitter's value is in its network, not the ability to share longform content, and G+ can't touch Twitter as a social network.
- ElijahLynn 11y agoYeah, it was super bittersweet and still is. My developer circle is mostly on Twitter, which I still interact with from time to time, to see what is going on in that circle. I just hate trying to micromanage my words and grammar sooo much.
- mozumder 11y agoA lot of the characters could be separated out into their own data fields. There's no reason to have links & hashtags in the main character text.
- kozukumi 11y agoYeah they should separate out links (with a maximum number total links not characters per post) and hash tags (again with a maximum number of total hash tags not characters per post). Something like 5 links and 15 hash tags should be enough for even the most hardcore of Twitter users. Then up the post limit to 200 or 250 characters. I have heard about Twitter looking into upping the limits for years now and I think they are over thinking the problem. Then again I have no idea if their backend is some how weirdly designed with the 140 character limit and changing that might require a lot of work. I wouldn't have thought so though. Well I should say I hope not, you never know what some devs do ;)
- tuxracer 11y ago#Then #people #would #just #write #really #long #tweets #like #this.
- passionfruit 11y agoThey could start counting hashtags against the character limit after a certain number of them.
- lcnmrn 11y ago640 characters limit is perfect on Sublevel. The average number of characters per post on Sublevel is the same as Facebook. You can see more statistic on the about page.
- vellum 11y agoI think it will work if they make the long tweet into a native card, like a screenshot, instead of "read more." Having too many truncated tweets + "read more" would kill the experience. Twitter works because it's skimmable. Removing the character limit is similar to the spam problem. It shifts the mental burden from the sender to the receiver. Instead of the sender being forced to compress, the receiver has to spend more time processing the text.
- fwn 11y agoUncompressing can be a major mental burden too. I'd rather read a real sentence instead of a 140 character string with various opaque shortenings.