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Post by Alyce: Old Media Enthusiast on Jan 5, 2016 12:40:13 GMT -5
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Post by A Platypus Rave on Jan 5, 2016 12:42:28 GMT -5
Doesn't that basically go against the entire point of Twitter?
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Post by thirteen3 on Jan 5, 2016 12:42:54 GMT -5
Wouldn't that make it Facebook tho?
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Post by Alyce: Old Media Enthusiast on Jan 5, 2016 12:43:33 GMT -5
Wouldn't that make it Facebook tho? It's not like they haven't been trying to be for a long time.
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Post by xCompackx on Jan 5, 2016 12:48:04 GMT -5
Do people seriously have so much shit to say on Twitter that they can't do it in 140 characters? I think this just further shows how people still have no idea what Twitter is actually good for.
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Post by Push R Truth on Jan 5, 2016 12:51:58 GMT -5
I thought the whole point of twitter was to keep it brief?
It's easy to ignore a 2 line tweet, but get ready for rants on every flavor of the bullshit rainbow.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 5, 2016 13:00:08 GMT -5
I could see raising to, I dunno, 300 or something, but 10,000? The hell's the point?
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Post by Deleted on Jan 5, 2016 13:31:14 GMT -5
Hopefully they do a thing where you only see 140 characters, but then can click to expand and then you can see the rest of the person's mainfesto.
I think they're trying to stop people from clicking out of twitter and into other services that allow for longer messages (twitlonger and tumblr). Maybe they're trying to get away from being basically a fast moving rss feed to get more ad dollars? I dunno though.
I like twitter well enough, but it definitely needs to keep adding new features to keep up with other SNS. They've been painfully late on keeping up with new features. I mean, how long did it take them to incorporate video? Geez.
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Post by Spider2024 on Jan 5, 2016 13:32:11 GMT -5
I could see raising to, I dunno, 300 or something, but 10,000? The hell's the point? ITA. Maybe they could start a different site called MegaTwitter and do 10,000 there?
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Post by Mayonnaise on Jan 5, 2016 13:36:55 GMT -5
Looking at the article it sounds more like Twitter owned version of Twitlonger that the actual character limit being raised. That would be smart move, IMO.
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Post by Andy Martin on Jan 5, 2016 13:48:11 GMT -5
Wish they'd make it so if I'm "mentioning" someone, it didn't count against the 140.
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Post by Famous Rocking Chimes on Jan 5, 2016 13:52:12 GMT -5
What? I'm all for extending the character limit but maybe do it to 200 at most.
10,000 word limit means we'll get literary masturbation by social justice warriors and all that, and I can't be bothered with that.
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Post by Rican on Jan 5, 2016 14:17:01 GMT -5
I'm all for extending the character limit but 10,000 is way too much. There have been plenty of tweets I had to edit and use poor grammar on due to being over the limit, but 200 or so should be fine.
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Post by xCompackx on Jan 5, 2016 14:22:30 GMT -5
Can non-phablet phones even display 10,000 characters on the screen at once? Imagine having to scroll, zoom, and resize the page just to read a 10,000 character Tweet describing someone's lunch or something. f*** that.
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Post by A Platypus Rave on Jan 5, 2016 14:31:51 GMT -5
This paragraph is 10000 characters long. This is the length of something that big 10,000 is pretty damned big when you get right down to it. It really is quite amazing on just how many words you can fit in 10000 characters. Can you really believe that 10000 characters is this long? I mean honestly when you first heard that this paragraph was 10000 characters long I bet you didn’t believe me. Why wouldn’t you believe me? Have I ever lied to you before? Sure maybe that one time but that was ages ago I would never lie about things like ten thousand characters and quite frankly I am completely flabbergasted and a bit disgusted that you think I would lie about something as beautiful and graceful as ten thousand characters. I mean honestly… 10000 characters is a majestic and unique creature like a unicorn. But not really because 10000 characters actually exist. But what I am saying is 10k is a bit too lengthy for an official limit… because what one sided conversation needs to be this long?
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Post by RedSmile on Jan 5, 2016 14:42:23 GMT -5
This paragraph is 10000 characters long. This is the length of something that big 10,000 is pretty damned big when you get right down to it. It really is quite amazing on just how many words you can fit in 10000 characters. Can you really believe that 10000 characters is this long? I mean honestly when you first heard that this paragraph was 10000 characters long I bet you didn’t believe me. Why wouldn’t you believe me? Have I ever lied to you before? Sure maybe that one time but that was ages ago I would never lie about things like ten thousand characters and quite frankly I am completely flabbergasted and a bit disgusted that you think I would lie about something as beautiful and graceful as ten thousand characters. I mean honestly… 10000 characters is a majestic and unique creature like a unicorn. But not really because 10000 characters actually exist. But what I am saying is 10k is a bit too lengthy for an official limit… because what one sided conversation needs to be this long? 10,000 characters, never drew a dime...
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Post by JDviant on Jan 5, 2016 16:21:58 GMT -5
It's still only going to show you the first couple of lines, just like with twitlonger. It will still look the same when you're scrolling.
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Post by YAKMAN is ICHIBAN on Jan 5, 2016 16:24:59 GMT -5
Make it a requirement.
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Post by Push R Truth on Jan 5, 2016 16:28:50 GMT -5
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Post by Joe Neglia on Jan 5, 2016 17:30:18 GMT -5
This is only being done so that Cher can use even more emoticons in her tweets.
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