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This is a horribly written announcement. The headline should be "Limit on Tweets is Now 280 Characters for Most Languages," or something equally pithy and the f
by mark212 9y ago
This is a horribly written announcement. The headline should be "Limit on Tweets is Now 280 Characters for Most Languages," or something equally pithy and the first sentence should be a short restatement of that.
Then -- and only then -- go into the details of the test and how this (probably) won't lead to loquacious tweeting etc etc. But my God. I had to read it three times to figure out what this post was supposed to be announcing.
- tyrust 9y ago>This is a horribly written announcement. Because it's not an announcement. The first sentence of the post links to the announcement: https://blog.twitter.com/official/en_us/topics/product/2017/Giving-you-more-characters-to-express-yourself.html https://blog.twitter.com/official/en_us/topics/product/2017/...
- itake 9y agoit is an announcement of the results of their test that started with your link.
- mortenjorck 9y agoThat’s the initial announcement of the test back in September, not the announcement that they’re making the change permanent and rolling it out to all users, which is indeed the buried lede at the end of the first paragraph of today's “Tweeting Made Easier” post.
- tyrust 9y agoI wouldn't call a fact in the first paragraph a "buried lede".