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They found out that Japanese Twitter users don’t run up against the character limit, and are less frustrated as a result. The point is to make everybody else le
by freyir 9y ago
They found out that Japanese Twitter users don’t run up against the character limit, and are less frustrated as a result. The point is to make everybody else less frustrated, not to make the Japanese as frustrated as everybody else.
- benguild 9y agoYeah, you can type a lot more in Japanese. Most characters stand for at least two US characters, which is most likely how they came up with the 2x decision.
- Mithaldu 9y agoSadly that is not going to be sufficient. Japanese uses very few context indicators and thus as a whole is a lot shorter.
- odbol_ 9y agoFound the UX designer in this sea of clueless engineers