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Re:Twitter to Stop Counting Photos and Links in 140-Characte... by PhasmaFelis on Monday May 16, 2016 @06:10PM (#11710040)
Concision is Twitter's only real point of differentiation. If they let people post blog posts, then it becomes identical to any other social blogging service. Why would they want to do that?
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Re:Twitter to Stop Counting Photos and Links in 140-Characte... by dragonwriter on Monday May 16, 2016 @07:28PM (#11710386)
> Concision is Twitter's only real point of differentiation.

Really, the size is an artifact of the early importance of SMS as a mechanism for Twitter. If SMS isn't important to Twitter anymore, I can see why it makes sense to reconsider the limit.

Even if concision is a positive differentiator, there's no reason a limit based on SMS's limitations must be treated as unalterable.

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