Twitter Considering 10,000-Character Limit for Tweets

Re:Twitter Considering 10,000-Character Limit for Tweets by Spivak on Tuesday January 05, 2016 @04:30PM (#10846215)

With this addition they will have officially become a user-focused Reddit. It's certainly not a bad thing but I doubt it's where the Twitter devs saw themselves heading. I'm sure people will continue to write 140 character messages but they'll probably become a minority over time. The bulk of tweets will just become title+link to external content or title+discussion starter.

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Re:Twitter Considering 10,000-Character Limit for Tweets by smt88 on Tuesday January 05, 2016 @04:51PM (#10846336)

> With this addition they will have officially become a user-focused Reddit.

I totally disagree. I still find it impossible to follow threads of conversation on Twitter. I'm a software developer and don't consider myself to be an idiot, either.

(Unrelated: I accidentally downvoted you when I was trying to copy-and-paste, and I'm terribly sorry!)

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Re:Twitter Considering 10,000-Character Limit for Tweets by Pxtl on Wednesday January 06, 2016 @08:33AM (#10850374)

Agreed. Ive been frustrated looking at the tweet at the root of what I know is a long, branching conversation with many participants, unable to see the flow or follow it at all. Slashdot and Kuro5hin solved threaded/nested conversations over a decade ago. How does Twitter still suck at it?

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Re:Twitter Considering 10,000-Character Limit for Tweets by onewaystreet on Tuesday January 05, 2016 @09:04PM (#10847905)

> The bulk of tweets will just become title+link to external content or title+discussion starter.

This is already what the bulk of tweets are today. What Twitter (and Facebook) want is for people to not have to leave to read external content.

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Re:Twitter Considering 10,000-Character Limit for Tweets by Houshalter on Tuesday January 05, 2016 @08:34PM (#10847763)

Sounds more like tumblr than reddit.

I do think there is a tendency for social media sites to converge towards the same thing. As features are added, and limitations are removed, the lines between different types of sites begins to blur. Something that started as some simple niche site, starts allowing users to host content, create forums, have their own chat app, adds features from discussion sites, etc. Eventually we will end up with some kind of hyper-FaceTubeRedditumblrkype.

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