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Re:Twitter to ban political advertising by notatoad on Wednesday October 30, 2019 @04:22PM (#21402168)
You can't really criticise twitter for this - last year they were all ready to launch a way to embed text posts in a tweet like images can currently be embedded in a tweet, until the userbase revolted and they had to cancel the plan.
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Re:Twitter to ban political advertising by catalogia on Wednesday October 30, 2019 @04:25PM (#21402208)
Really? The twitter userbase actually prefers it this way? That's baffling to me. Did the revolting userbase provide any reasons or explanations for this preference?
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Re:Twitter to ban political advertising by walls on Wednesday October 30, 2019 @04:28PM (#21402255)
The average Twitter user isn't interested in more than a tweets worth of information.
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Re:Twitter to ban political advertising by lalaithion on Wednesday October 30, 2019 @04:29PM (#21402272)
The pain of embedding a long text post in multiple tweets rewards authors for succinctness, something most places on the internet sorely lack.
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Re:Twitter to ban political advertising by acbabis on Wednesday October 30, 2019 @04:28PM (#21402263)
I'm not a Twitter user myself, but the character limit is what made Twitter unique. It might be fun to laugh at people who only want to read 140 characters, but we shouldn't assume they aren't going elsewhere to post and read essays. A lot of people use Twitter and reddit/Facebook/HN/ect.
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Re:Twitter to ban political advertising by triceratops on Wednesday October 30, 2019 @05:42PM (#21403107)
> revolting userbase

There's no need to insult every single Twitter user like that :-)

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Re:Twitter to ban political advertising by notatoad on Wednesday October 30, 2019 @04:28PM (#21402258)
it was also baffling to me. I interpreted it as just the typical reactionary "we hate change" attitude that any online community has.
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