Re:Twitter Considering 10,000-Character Limit for Tweets
by wf on Tuesday January 05, 2016 @06:32PM
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This is a really cool idea. It's a really simple solution to the same problem that would be really beautiful and easy to use on mobile especially. It doesn't quite reach the same depth, but I think it's a good way to start.
Re:Twitter Considering 10,000-Character Limit for Tweets
by prawn on Tuesday January 05, 2016 @11:46PM
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Always had it on my list to build a prototype of the concept and pitch it to media companies. Baffles me that they do so much work plugging Twitter handles for newsreaders, journalists, etc but then use a platform that hardly helps them.
Re:Twitter Considering 10,000-Character Limit for Tweets
by visakanv on Wednesday January 06, 2016 @03:16AM
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This is exactly what Paddy Adams was talking about with Cards, and I agree strongly with both of you: https://medium.com/intercom-inside/why-cards-are-the-future-...
Re:Twitter Considering 10,000-Character Limit for Tweets
by diminish on Wednesday January 06, 2016 @03:56AM
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- Cards seem quite similar to a carousel with maybe different movement options.
- Twitter character limit is already exceeded by people writing somewhere and posting the screenshotted image of the text, which is awful.
- 1/N.. N/N style can be expressed better by extended character limits, but that will decrease the number of tweets, which a public company may see as a deteriorating metric.
Unfortunately Twitter has more usability problems than char limit in the main timeline user interface.
- Viewing a conversation is pretty much confusing. You click on a tweet, it expands and it's not obvious how the conversation with a tree-branching structure proceeds
- "Read later" is needed independent of "Like"
Re:Twitter Considering 10,000-Character Limit for Tweets
by mosburger on Wednesday January 06, 2016 @09:37AM
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Ugh. Marc Andreesen is the worst with this. I had to stop following him. Twitter is the wrong platform if you want to smear 1500 characters worth of information across multiple tweets.
Re:Twitter Considering 10,000-Character Limit for Tweets
by chirau on Wednesday January 06, 2016 @11:13AM
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Only Marc Andreesen can get away with it, he is good at establishing break points. I can easily follow.
Vivek Wadhwa, on the other hand... his rants were a mess.
Re:Twitter Considering 10,000-Character Limit for Tweets
by AndrewKemendo on Wednesday January 06, 2016 @01:23AM
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Someone mocked that up a while back for a different app. I remember seeing the video for it come back up not long ago.
Means that someone can read as usual, or delve for the full series of tweets. They could provide an indication to the writer of what percentage of people read to which depth, for example.
It could work well for presenting news articles (sentence or paragraph at a time), photo galleries/essays, slidedecks, stories, advertising, etc. Using a news article as an example, some people will be interested in just the headline, others in the first three bits, a few in the full story to its end.