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While I might not "get it," I never got why you would limit a message to 160 characters either, and those guys seem to be doing ok.
by sethammons 10y ago
While I might not "get it," I never got why you would limit a message to 160 characters either, and those guys seem to be doing ok.
- joopxiv 10y agoActually, they're struggling quite a bit.
- softawre 10y agoWho is the They here? Seems like the guys that made the platform and the top engineers working for them all got rich off of the idea.
- simonswords82 10y agoTrue - but that's all in the past now. Twitter's overall future is grim...They're either going to properly niche down and try not to be all things to all men, or die. Just my opinion.
- Senji 10y agoTwitter will never be strapped for cash, it's owned by a filthy rich billionaire.
- simonswords82 10y agoThere's got to come a time when even the filthiest rich billionaires say enough is enough, this project is never going to hit a satisfactory ROI.
- etjossem 10y agoTWLO was doing $60 a share last time I checked, up from $10. :)
- TazeTSchnitzel 10y agoIndeed, text messaging is still a thing. And Twitter, which shortened that a bit to 140 chars (versus the typical SMS limit for English speakers) is very popular.