Giving you more characters

Re:Giving you more characters by joelrunyon on Tuesday September 26, 2017 @06:13PM (#15343011)

We don't need 140 characters. They could solve this a dozen other ways including:

* Not counting links as characters.

* Not including images as characters.

* Improving tweet-storm capabilities.

* Improve threading + response mechanisms.

This is the easiest + worst improvement they could do. I hope it's not permanent.

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Re:Giving you more characters by ebola1717 on Tuesday September 26, 2017 @06:26PM (#15343127)

* Links are 20 characters, flat (could be less, but users would spam 100+ links).

* Images aren't counted (unless they come from links).

* @handles were moved out of the text for replies.

* Threads have improved a lot over the past year.

* Thread composer is apparently on it's way.

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Re:Giving you more characters by joelrunyon on Tuesday September 26, 2017 @06:56PM (#15343347)

Just don't follow spam accounts? Not that hard...

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Re:Giving you more characters by factsaresacred on Tuesday September 26, 2017 @06:16PM (#15343037)

* Improving tweet-storm capabilities.

That's what they just did.

* Not counting links as characters.

Oh, think of the spam.

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Re:Giving you more characters by joelrunyon on Tuesday September 26, 2017 @06:56PM (#15343344)

Literally just don't follow spam accounts?

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