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Twitter is amazing, but it needs to ditch the 140 chars, improve discoverability, and get more modest in its expectations. Twitter is an interest network, where
by tormeh 9y ago
Twitter is amazing, but it needs to ditch the 140 chars, improve discoverability, and get more modest in its expectations. Twitter is an interest network, where you follow interesting people and read what they write, re-tweet what they write and sometimes interact with them. Given that a lot of people don't have that much interest in things that can be expressed in Twitter form, Twitter has a low ceiling on how big it can get. Most sports fans would rather watch sports than following an athlete. I think Twitter should try being better at what their users use it as.
- kasey_junk 9y agoI think I'd probably stop using Twitter (the only social network I use) if they ditched the 140 character format. I don't want to see long form facebook style posts there, its literally their differentiation.
- tormeh 9y agoI would say that their differentiation of Twitter is that all posts are public and connections are uni-directional. They could implement 140+ using the same kind of GUI that's already there for text-as-picture, which is already widely used.
- kasey_junk 9y agoSorry let me rephrase. Its their differentiation to me. I don't want to see 140+ character posts. I like the terseness of the format.
- pzone 9y agoWell if they remove the 140 character limit I'll start using Twitter again. Looks like they're breaking even.
- kasey_junk 9y agoSo umm exactly what they are being criticized for in the article?