Twitter moves away from 140 characters, ditches confusing and restrictive rules

Re:Twitter moves away from 140 characters, ditches confusing... by fayimora on Tuesday May 24, 2016 @12:38PM (#11763004)

The way I understand it, the 140 character limit still holds. They just stopped counting things like mentions and URLs.

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Re:Twitter moves away from 140 characters, ditches confusing... by robmcm on Tuesday May 24, 2016 @12:42PM (#11763046)

But if they didn't use a misleading title you wouldn't have clicked the link...

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Re:Twitter moves away from 140 characters, ditches confusing... by fayimora on Tuesday May 24, 2016 @12:48PM (#11763119)

haha I thought about that too. Clever but slightly misleading. Surely they could have come up with something true and equally attractive but then again it's the battle of "who gets the story out first"

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Re:Twitter moves away from 140 characters, ditches confusing... by Touche on Tuesday May 24, 2016 @12:47PM (#11763097)

Is it misleading to call a spade a spade? There's a character limit, they're just going to arbitrarily decide what is and isn't a character based on engagement feedback they get from advertisers.

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