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Personally, I think Twitter is struggling because they're married to the greatest short coming of the product: the 120 character statically allocated array. Sur
by jonathankoren 12y ago
Personally, I think Twitter is struggling because they're married to the greatest short coming of the product: the 120 character statically allocated array. Sure they've tried to shoehorn other things into it (photos, replies, tags), but always at the expense of these precious characters -- a product decision that came from aping SMS. The updates are often frustratingly limiting. As long as you artificially limit yourself, you're stuck and can't innovate.
I use Twitter, but I don't know what I exactly get out of it. I guess I use it out of habit more than anything.
- Touche 12y agoI think the fact that Twitter is overwhelming a negative place is a bigger issue.
- benrhughes 12y agoWhile that's true, I think it's possible to find your own corner of the world that's not obsessing over the issues du jour and generally worrying themselves to death. After trying many time to cull the people I follow to create a more positive space, I ended up starting a new account and only following people whose positive:negative content is really high. So far it's working well.
- joe_the_user 12y agoI think Twitter's overwhelming negativity is strongly related to it's character limit. I spend a lot of time on Facebook and the ability to back-up one's opinions in greater detail with (relatively) longer arguments is pretty crucial tool for having constructive interaction.
- Touche 12y agoI don't think it's the character limit, it's the fact that the stream moves so quickly that unless you tweet loudly more than likely no one will read what you write (unless you happen to be a celebrity).