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I don't follow the hype and when I was an active user I would get frustrated with my tweet limiting to so few characters. here is what I had to do: 1. write t
by yeukhon 11y ago
I don't follow the hype and when I was an active user I would get frustrated with my tweet limiting to so few characters.
here is what I had to do:
1. write tweet, fuck, over limit
2. abbrev words, fuck still low on limit
3. remove spaces, fuck still low on limit
4. remove words and punctuations, thinking "fuck so this is what search engine feels like when one stems words", not my tweet is so not English
5. fuck still over limit or incomplete, tweet the first thought, comment on the new tweet with the rest of my story.
But why this model? FB has a limit few thousands char limits for status but in practice, only few lines will ever written on most FB statuses. People who manage to write a complete story on FB status have something meaningful to write about.
- logicallee 11y agoI guarantee you that your audience wasn't frustrated by the fact that you had to jump through those hoops. You think all those politicians and celebrities and thought leaders don't have trouble fitting things in 140 characters? I'm not being too verbose, but I've just written 292 here. :)
- dajohnson89 11y agoAgreed. And editing is the hardest (but most important) part of writing.
- SixSigma 11y agoHence the old gag: Sorry this letter is so long, I didn't have much time.
- alxndr 11y agoBlaise Pascal, in 1657: "I have made this [letter] longer than usual because I have not had time to make it shorter." http://quoteinvestigator.com/2012/04/28/shorter-letter/ http://quoteinvestigator.com/2012/04/28/shorter-letter/
- rconti 11y agoAnd yet Facebook has vastly better information density on their desktop and mobile sites than Twitter manages. (see my comment elsewhere on this comment thread)