Twitter Considering 10,000-Character Limit for Tweets

Re:Twitter Considering 10,000-Character Limit for Tweets by npizzolato on Tuesday January 05, 2016 @06:13PM (#10846910)

> I'm going to go out on what might be something of a limb and suggest that perhaps Twitter is not the place for meaningful discussions, or even, discussion in general.

I tend to agree with you, but then again I've never understood the appeal of Twitter. Do people get enough entertainment out of the "i love tacos lol" tweets to continue using it day after day? You could link to mildly interesting articles, but you can hardly say anything about it in 140 characters, so why use that medium to post/reply to articles?

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Re:Twitter Considering 10,000-Character Limit for Tweets by Mendenhall on Tuesday January 05, 2016 @10:09PM (#10848184)

I really enjoy twitter for searching hashtags of current events. If there is some sort of live situation happening I always search twitter first for people near area etc. I almost always find news details on twitter faster than anywhere else. Example would be someone heard the police mention name on scanner and tweeted it long before news broke of persons name. After twitter I find every news source slow.

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