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Twitter could charge 1¢ for each character over 140. That will encourage people to (still) be concise, but also monetize people (or companies) that want to say

Twitter could charge 1¢ for each character over 140. That will encourage people to (still) be concise, but also monetize people (or companies) that want to say more.

caleb_gl 11y ago
genius, sad, and probably realistic.
fideloper 11y ago
I'd love to see a limit of like 2-3 long-form tweets per 24 hour period.
- JayHost 11y ago
  How about the long form tweets get turned into pictures so no rules are broken and TLDR is obvious? Otherwise limit of 1 like pinned tweet.
  - pjc50 11y ago
    I'd rather the reverse: people already post pictures-of-text, and because twitter like to scale to fit with no way of seeing 1:1 zoom other than the browser's "View Image" feature, it can often be unreadable. Maybe they could OCR the images.
evanpw 11y ago
The best suggestion I've seen is 1¢ for the 141st character, 2¢ for the 142nd, 4¢ for the 143rd, etc. Going slightly over 140 costs a trivial amount, but it would be stupidly expensive to tweet anything really long. EDIT: I found where I stole this idea from: http://www.interfluidity.com/v2/6207.html http://www.interfluidity.com/v2/6207.html
- michaelmrose 11y ago
  Nobody would pay for this. They would just continue writing blog posts and linking them on twitter
- baddox 11y ago
  Ah yes, only $100k for a 160 character tweet. Edit: mental math botched. I thought I remembered the powers of 2 better than I actually did. 160 characters would be about 10k, and 100k would buy you a whopping 163 characters.
  - lightbright 11y ago
    No, like 50 cents.
    - saurik 11y ago
      ?! The sum of powers of 2 up to 20 is 2^21-1, which is ~$20k; so not $100k, but definitely not 50 cents.
      - baddox 11y ago
        Yeah, I botched my mental math, but yours isn't quite right either, because the 141st character is 1 cent, which is 2^0. So the 20th power of two in this context is 2^19, and the sum of the powers of two up to the 19th is 2^20 - 1.
        saurik 11y ago
        Damn. I had originally even typed it with 2^20-1 and $10k, but then second-guessed myself. (This process of me second guessing my math intuition and then making it worse is also why I didn't end up competing on the national level for my state in the high school math leagues ;P.)
    - 6d0debc071 11y ago
      What evanpw seems to be suggesting grows faster than you might think. There's a neat story on that point: http://mathforum.org/sanders/geometry/GP11Fable.html http://mathforum.org/sanders/geometry/GP11Fable.html
  - tomswartz07 11y ago
    If they make the limit infinite, you'd end up being paid -1/12 of a cent. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w-I6XTVZXww https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w-I6XTVZXww
- johnchristopher 11y ago
  I fail to see the rationale behind this.
hackaflocka 11y ago
But it won't stop people from screencapping text and posting it as an image.

Twitter could charge 1¢ for each character over 140. That will encourage people to (still) be concise, but also monetize people (or companies) that want to say more.

caleb_gl 11y ago

genius, sad, and probably realistic.

fideloper 11y ago

I'd love to see a limit of like 2-3 long-form tweets per 24 hour period.

JayHost 11y ago
How about the long form tweets get turned into pictures so no rules are broken and TLDR is obvious? Otherwise limit of 1 like pinned tweet.
- pjc50 11y ago
  I'd rather the reverse: people already post pictures-of-text, and because twitter like to scale to fit with no way of seeing 1:1 zoom other than the browser's "View Image" feature, it can often be unreadable. Maybe they could OCR the images.

evanpw 11y ago

The best suggestion I've seen is 1¢ for the 141st character, 2¢ for the 142nd, 4¢ for the 143rd, etc. Going slightly over 140 costs a trivial amount, but it would be stupidly expensive to tweet anything really long. EDIT: I found where I stole this idea from: http://www.interfluidity.com/v2/6207.html http://www.interfluidity.com/v2/6207.html

michaelmrose 11y ago
Nobody would pay for this. They would just continue writing blog posts and linking them on twitter
baddox 11y ago
Ah yes, only $100k for a 160 character tweet. Edit: mental math botched. I thought I remembered the powers of 2 better than I actually did. 160 characters would be about 10k, and 100k would buy you a whopping 163 characters.
- lightbright 11y ago
  No, like 50 cents.
  - saurik 11y ago
    ?! The sum of powers of 2 up to 20 is 2^21-1, which is ~$20k; so not $100k, but definitely not 50 cents.
    - baddox 11y ago
      Yeah, I botched my mental math, but yours isn't quite right either, because the 141st character is 1 cent, which is 2^0. So the 20th power of two in this context is 2^19, and the sum of the powers of two up to the 19th is 2^20 - 1.
      - saurik 11y ago
        Damn. I had originally even typed it with 2^20-1 and $10k, but then second-guessed myself. (This process of me second guessing my math intuition and then making it worse is also why I didn't end up competing on the national level for my state in the high school math leagues ;P.)
  - 6d0debc071 11y ago
    What evanpw seems to be suggesting grows faster than you might think. There's a neat story on that point: http://mathforum.org/sanders/geometry/GP11Fable.html http://mathforum.org/sanders/geometry/GP11Fable.html
- tomswartz07 11y ago
  If they make the limit infinite, you'd end up being paid -1/12 of a cent. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w-I6XTVZXww https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w-I6XTVZXww
johnchristopher 11y ago
I fail to see the rationale behind this.

hackaflocka 11y ago

But it won't stop people from screencapping text and posting it as an image.