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Twitter’s new, ‘simpler’ rules for character counts in tweets go live
- overcast 10y agoA timely update to the earlier discussion https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12514062 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12514062 Really "simple" rules to help ease into that late majority curve they can't seem to reach.
- glitch 10y agoAh! That explains the cruft I've seen today with the mess of truncated tweets with links to themselves (twitter.com/i/web/status/…) at the end of the tweet text. (If you use a third-party client, you'll see this duct-tape in the tweets.)
- sctb 10y agoCurrent discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12533482 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12533482
- overcast 10y agoThe TechCrunch article is a much better overview, and outlines all of the rules associated with the change. This is just a simple tweet saying changes have been rolled out.