Re:Ask HN: How would you turn Twitter around?
by snowwrestler on Wednesday March 01, 2017 @02:19AM
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YouTube videos can be as long as you want.
Songs can be as long as you want.
TV shows can be as long as you want.
You think you're arguing the value of constraints, but you're actually arguing that different media formats have different points of cultural optimization.
If that's true, then is there any need to enforce an artificial length limit on tweets? If shorter, pithier tweets are better, then most tweets will be short and pithy--naturally.
Songs can be as long as you want.
TV shows can be as long as you want.
You think you're arguing the value of constraints, but you're actually arguing that different media formats have different points of cultural optimization.
If that's true, then is there any need to enforce an artificial length limit on tweets? If shorter, pithier tweets are better, then most tweets will be short and pithy--naturally.