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It also correlates to the # of characters Google allows in it's headlines. It's worth noting that there is something to the # of characters a human can scan &
by joelrunyon 9y ago
It also correlates to the # of characters Google allows in it's headlines.
It's worth noting that there is something to the # of characters a human can scan & understand without turning it's full focus to it.
- oneeyedpigeon 9y agoCan you explain what you mean by this? If you're talking about the 'title' of each search result, it looks like it's capped at a way lower number of characters than that.
- joelrunyon 9y agoThe total number of characters in an ad is 130(ish). 25 for title 35 for line 1 35 for line 2 35 for display url 130 characters total.
- scbrg 9y agoFor what it's worth, your message required a lot more attention from me than it would have, if you had used the word "number" rather than the strange glyph "#". I guess you were doing this with some sort of meta humour because the story is about twitter, but the point was inversed. Your attempt to abbreviate things to make them more legible, made them less so. The lesson above applies, incidentally, to pretty much everything twitter.
- joelrunyon 9y agoI'm sorry to inconvenience your day.
- scbrg 9y agoWell, apologies. I got the impression that your argument was that you make a messages easier to understand by shortening them. I just gave you a concrete example of when a message got harder to understand because it was shortened. But good job on deliberately missing the point as a discussion strategy. That too, was very twitter of you.
- joelrunyon 9y agoHey - I'm not trying to argue. I apologized.