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The very next sentence says: > This reflects the challenge of fitting a thought into a Tweet, often resulting in lots of time spent editing and even at times a
by blauditore 9y ago
The very next sentence says:
> This reflects the challenge of fitting a thought into a Tweet, often resulting in lots of time spent editing and even at times abandoning Tweets before sending.
The whole idea of extending the limit is based on what you describe, and this post shows that it had the desired effect, without introducing other bad things.
I'm not sure what your point is.
- squeaky-clean 9y ago> I'm not sure what your point is. My point is I bet it is not 9% but closer to 99% of tweets that are negatively affected by 140 characters, and their way of measuring this is very flawed.
- blauditore 9y agoBut their test phase with 280 characters has indeed proved the opposite: Median and mode of tweet length are still roughly the same as before, judging from that graph. This number doesn't come from thin air, but was calculated based on the assumption of log-normal distribution if there weren't a limit: https://blog.twitter.com/engineering/en_us/topics/insights/2017/Our-Discovery-of-Cramming.html https://blog.twitter.com/engineering/en_us/topics/insights/2...
- CamelCaseName 9y agoPerhaps the majority of longer form tweeters have already left the platform or altered their tweeting behavior?
- IshKebab 9y agoLook at the graph. It clearly isn't the case.