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Re:Twitter Considering 10,000-Character Limit for Tweets by Kalium on Tuesday January 05, 2016 @02:26PM (#10845353)
I agree, there's a lot of value in forcing people to be concise.

That said, it also privileges readily-echoes soundbytes over discussion. This has the side effect of wrecking discussion.

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Re:Twitter Considering 10,000-Character Limit for Tweets by tmalsburg2 on Tuesday January 05, 2016 @03:10PM (#10845662)
Easy solution: charge users per character. I would happily pay.
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Re:Twitter Considering 10,000-Character Limit for Tweets by michaelmrose on Tuesday January 05, 2016 @04:20PM (#10846144)
How many others do you imagine would pay twitter by the character rather than use mediums not so constrained and how much.

The most expensive medium per character is text messaging

https://www.twilio.com/sms/pricing and each carrier effectively holds a monopoly on reaching that customer via that means especially since plenty of phones still can't receive any other form of electronic message.

Twitter has more than ample competition this kind of blackmail would destroy twitter.

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Re:Twitter Considering 10,000-Character Limit for Tweets by smt88 on Tuesday January 05, 2016 @05:32PM (#10846599)
People would switch to a free social network, guaranteed. Twitter already has a huge problem maintaining loyalty, and creating a class system -- where people who can/will pay actually get more of the stage -- would piss a lot of people off.
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