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The 140 characters make sense — if you do textual analysis, the average sentence turns out to be around that number of characters. The issue is that Twitter is
by QML 9y ago
The 140 characters make sense — if you do textual analysis, the average sentence turns out to be around that number of characters.
The issue is that Twitter is seen as a medium of expression, but I don’t think it’s suppose to be a platform where people go in-depth with their thoughts; more for momentarily formed opinions, ideas, or announcements.
For publishment, people should be using something like Medium.
- speedplane 9y agoEvery new medium of communication effects the substance of that communication. I doubt they can change the 140 character limit without changing the substance of conversation, but that may be the point.