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Re:Ask HN: How would you turn Twitter around? by _red on Tuesday February 28, 2017 @01:56PM (#13756602)
Regarding #1, #2, and #3.

So what happens if instead of having 1,000 x 140 char tweets cluttering your timeline, you instead wind up with 100 x 1400 char tweets? Do you have time to read all that?

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Re:Ask HN: How would you turn Twitter around? by Grue3 on Tuesday February 28, 2017 @03:40PM (#13757607)
You can see if something is worth reading within the first 100 characters. Twitter character limit doesn't work because people are posting images of text, or do "tweetstorms". If the limit made sense, the users wouldn't be doing this.
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