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> Lastly he probably also had/has some WeChat ambitions. Years ago I remember reading something about the Chinese microblogging sites and it was mentioned "the

> Lastly he probably also had/has some WeChat ambitions. Years ago I remember reading something about the Chinese microblogging sites and it was mentioned "these sites also have a character limits. However, b/c in Chinese a character can be an entire word, the 'word limits' are much longer." Moving to the 4000 character limit feels very much a response to the above.

WeylandYutani 3y ago
This is my problem with Twitter. It's not meant for serious discussion. We have blogs for that. Nobody wants to read it for an interesting article about geopolitics- foreignaffairs.com already exists. Know your audience.
- joshmanders 3y ago
  > It's not meant for serious discussion. What exactly is it meant for then if not serious discussion? > We have blogs for that. You mean the one sided discussions? Also not every thought is worthy of a blog post, but is worthy of being put out there. > Nobody wants to read it for an interesting article about geopolitics- foreignaffairs.com already exists Geopolitics isn't the only thing longer convos are for... The problem with pre-Musk/4000 char limit Twitter is that nuances are heavily lost because of the lack of characters and that nobody wants to do thread storms. > Know your audience. Ironic.
  - oneeyedpigeon 3y ago
    > What exactly is it meant for then if not serious discussion? All other types of discussion. Promoting serious discussion elsewhere.
    - joshmanders 3y ago
      That's a byproduct of a lack of characters, not the reason it was created.
      - brewdad 3y ago
        Well it was created so we could all tell everyone what we were having for lunch. It took a few years before someone tried having anything resembling serious discussion.
- prerok 3y ago
  Well, at the time of the pandemic, our prime minister tweeted important changes to policies to have effect in the next few days. Whether or not that was what the platform was meant for, it was what it was. And as far as I heard, our country was not the only one where this was happening.
Dylan16807 3y ago
I sure hope it wasn't a response to that! Twitter dealt with that in 2017! https://blog.twitter.com/en_us/topics/product/2017/Giving-you-more-characters-to-express-yourself https://blog.twitter.com/en_us/topics/product/2017/Giving-yo... They made Unicode code points below U+1100 count as 1/280 of the character limit, and code points above it count as 1/140 of the character limit.

WeylandYutani 3y ago

This is my problem with Twitter. It's not meant for serious discussion. We have blogs for that. Nobody wants to read it for an interesting article about geopolitics- foreignaffairs.com already exists. Know your audience.

joshmanders 3y ago
> It's not meant for serious discussion. What exactly is it meant for then if not serious discussion? > We have blogs for that. You mean the one sided discussions? Also not every thought is worthy of a blog post, but is worthy of being put out there. > Nobody wants to read it for an interesting article about geopolitics- foreignaffairs.com already exists Geopolitics isn't the only thing longer convos are for... The problem with pre-Musk/4000 char limit Twitter is that nuances are heavily lost because of the lack of characters and that nobody wants to do thread storms. > Know your audience. Ironic.
- oneeyedpigeon 3y ago
  > What exactly is it meant for then if not serious discussion? All other types of discussion. Promoting serious discussion elsewhere.
  - joshmanders 3y ago
    That's a byproduct of a lack of characters, not the reason it was created.
    - brewdad 3y ago
      Well it was created so we could all tell everyone what we were having for lunch. It took a few years before someone tried having anything resembling serious discussion.
prerok 3y ago
Well, at the time of the pandemic, our prime minister tweeted important changes to policies to have effect in the next few days. Whether or not that was what the platform was meant for, it was what it was. And as far as I heard, our country was not the only one where this was happening.

Dylan16807 3y ago

I sure hope it wasn't a response to that! Twitter dealt with that in 2017! https://blog.twitter.com/en_us/topics/product/2017/Giving-you-more-characters-to-express-yourself https://blog.twitter.com/en_us/topics/product/2017/Giving-yo... They made Unicode code points below U+1100 count as 1/280 of the character limit, and code points above it count as 1/140 of the character limit.