Twitter Considering 10,000-Character Limit for Tweets

Re:Twitter Considering 10,000-Character Limit for Tweets by altern8 on Tuesday January 05, 2016 @05:12PM (#10846459)

You don't necessarily have to write them yourself. You can just copy and paste from different sources multiple times a day.

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Re:Twitter Considering 10,000-Character Limit for Tweets by xerography on Tuesday January 05, 2016 @08:12PM (#10847636)

You don't necessarily have to write them yourself. You can just copy and paste from different sources multiple times a day.

(Sorry. I'll take your downboats and be on my way. I could not resist.)

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Re:Twitter Considering 10,000-Character Limit for Tweets by personjerry on Tuesday January 05, 2016 @05:36PM (#10846631)

Wait, are you telling me I can copy paste content on the Internet and get credit for it?

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Re:Twitter Considering 10,000-Character Limit for Tweets by JetSpiegel on Tuesday January 05, 2016 @08:10PM (#10847621)

I believe this is called "Programming" in certain enterprise circles.

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Re:Twitter Considering 10,000-Character Limit for Tweets by signal11 on Tuesday January 05, 2016 @05:34PM (#10846617)

IIRC Twitter already enforces a max-height on tweets (ever since they allowed line breaks). People may indeed copy/paste but it won't add to the visual noise in timelines, and relatively few people will click through anyway.

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Re:Twitter Considering 10,000-Character Limit for Tweets by brudgers on Tuesday January 05, 2016 @06:47PM (#10847124)

I think the term of art in this case is "retweet".

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Re:Twitter Considering 10,000-Character Limit for Tweets by shiro on Tuesday January 05, 2016 @08:45PM (#10847832)

Sadly it is pretty common that someone copy & paste some witty tweet and get attention. There's even a service to discover that. In Japanese it is called pakutsui (pakuri (= plagiarism) + tsui (= tweet)).

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