Twitter Considering 10,000-Character Limit for Tweets

Re:Twitter Considering 10,000-Character Limit for Tweets by yeukhon on Tuesday January 05, 2016 @05:41PM (#10846679)

I don't follow the hype and when I was an active user I would get frustrated with my tweet limiting to so few characters.

here is what I had to do:

1. write tweet, fuck, over limit

2. abbrev words, fuck still low on limit

3. remove spaces, fuck still low on limit

4. remove words and punctuations, thinking "fuck so this is what search engine feels like when one stems words", not my tweet is so not English

5. fuck still over limit or incomplete, tweet the first thought, comment on the new tweet with the rest of my story.

But why this model? FB has a limit few thousands char limits for status but in practice, only few lines will ever written on most FB statuses. People who manage to write a complete story on FB status have something meaningful to write about.

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Re:Twitter Considering 10,000-Character Limit for Tweets by logicallee on Tuesday January 05, 2016 @06:19PM (#10846935)

I guarantee you that your audience wasn't frustrated by the fact that you had to jump through those hoops. You think all those politicians and celebrities and thought leaders don't have trouble fitting things in 140 characters? I'm not being too verbose, but I've just written 292 here. :)

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Re:Twitter Considering 10,000-Character Limit for Tweets by dajohnson89 on Tuesday January 05, 2016 @07:15PM (#10847285)

Agreed. And editing is the hardest (but most important) part of writing.

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Re:Twitter Considering 10,000-Character Limit for Tweets by SixSigma on Wednesday January 06, 2016 @09:42AM (#10850690)

Hence the old gag:

Sorry this letter is so long, I didn't have much time.

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Re:Twitter Considering 10,000-Character Limit for Tweets by alxndr on Wednesday January 06, 2016 @10:52PM (#10855852)

Blaise Pascal, in 1657: "I have made this [letter] longer than usual because I have not had time to make it shorter."

http://quoteinvestigator.com/2012/04/28/shorter-letter/

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Re:Twitter Considering 10,000-Character Limit for Tweets by rconti on Tuesday January 05, 2016 @07:04PM (#10847228)

And yet Facebook has vastly better information density on their desktop and mobile sites than Twitter manages. (see my comment elsewhere on this comment thread)

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