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But why hasn't a twitter clone/alternative that would allow more than 140 characters taken off yet then ?

• ryandvm 12y ago
  This seems like the premise of an Onion article...
• bunderbunder 12y ago
  There's an interesting startup that I think does that. It's called Facebook.
  • aikah 12y ago
    Then why are people using Twitter then ? You cant say Facebook is like Twitter with more characters in the messages,it simply doesnt work.
    • FooBarWidget 12y ago
      Because Twitter has a lower barrier to entry. Yes the 140 character limit sucks. But because of the character limit, people are more inclined to open Twitter in the first place. The psychological advantage of that outweights the disadvantage of hitting the 140 character limit later, at least for users.