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What are the business advantages? It has to make business sense, right? Bigger ads? Trap people more in the ecosystem, less outbound links, maybe?
by ErikAugust 11y ago
What are the business advantages? It has to make business sense, right?
Bigger ads? Trap people more in the ecosystem, less outbound links, maybe?
- Spooky23 11y agoThey don't have traction amongst normal humans.
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- jsprogrammer 11y agoJust what the world needs: more traps.
- a_shane 11y agoAll of the above, plus attracting new users. Comparatively, Twitter doesn't have the same user base as Instagram, Facebook, or WhatsApp, and I think that extending the character limit is a way of making Twitter more accessible for first-time users. It's also designed to bring more brands to Twitter. Right now it's extremely difficult to promote your brand/business, include a photo, @ mention someone, and include a hashtag. An extended character limit solves all of these problems, making it a more attractive platform for advertising than ever before.
- chippy 11y agoHaving more text means more text to mine which would be something of a paid service. I can imagine a couple of ways, but imagine a real time feed of all long text "posts" which mention your brand, product, company.