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These are great changes for the platform as I always felt the 140 characters was a difficult limitation for replies. Perhaps, it would have been easier to just
by neovive 10y ago
These are great changes for the platform as I always felt the 140 characters was a difficult limitation for replies.
Perhaps, it would have been easier to just increase the general limit to 160 characters; avoiding so many work-arounds and different rules. I wonder what impact of 20 more characters would be in terms of hardware and bandwidth at Twitter's scale.
- newjersey 10y agoThe 20 characters is for the handle of the person tweeting. I already have retweets not fit in a single text 1/2: @linuxhiker: RT @CALComputerCLub: Hey @ubuntu we donated 3 @lenovo laptops that we put Ubuntu 16.04 on to 3 students at a local middle school! https://t.co https://t.co 2/2: /MArvqjNtip/s/KtTS Twitter if you're reading, I'm ok with increasing limits on replies (with context) but don't raise the limit on ALL tweets. @511NY: Closure on #BayonneBridge Both directions from New York Side to New Jersey Side https://t.co/Axv6AP1O0A/s/BiVD https://t.co/Axv6AP1O0A/s/BiVD m.twitter.com/511NY
- billmalarky 10y ago>I wonder what impact of 20 more characters would be in terms of hardware and bandwidth at Twitter's scale. I'm sure they're concerned less with the technical impact than the risk of changing the product somewhat drastically. The char limit is a fundamental aspect of twitter. It forces people to create curt, easily digestible content. Expanding that limit might have pretty bad side effects, such as people communicating the same message they would have in 140 chars, but more verbosely (which weakens the product).
- placeybordeaux 10y agoIf you pull from their API you will soon realize the 140 characters are a tiny amount of the amount of data they ship around with each tweet.