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Twitter To Extend 140-Character Limit For Tweets (recode.net)
An anonymous reader writes: According to Re/code, Twitter is doing away with its 140-character limit for tweets. The company is currently planning on increasing the limit to 10,000 characters, though the final number may change before they roll it out. "Twitter is currently testing a version of the product in which tweets appear the same way they do now, displaying just 140 characters, with some kind of call to action that there is more content you can't see. Clicking on the tweets would then expand them to reveal more content. The point of this is to keep the same look and feel for your timeline, although this design is not necessarily final, sources say."
I wonder what ramifications this will have on peoples' data plan usage.
Thanks to the War on Drugs, it's easier to buy meth than it is to buy cold medicine!
Is Twitter only threatening suicide or do they really mean it?
Is because the stock IPO was a bust and the company is still a negative $150 million in income.
I was sending messages up to 10K characters on the (then arpanet) as early as 1984. Beat them to the ability to exceed 140 characters by 32 years!
Seriously, I never got the appeal of this 140 character thing. It seems like that creates pressure in the direction of thought-free trivialities rather than meaningful depth of communication.
Captcha: Capacity.
I wonder how much software this will break.
It'll also hurt Twitter. Twitter with large tweets is just an average blog.
140 characters is more than enough to express a complete thought!
- @realDonaldTrump
Twitters call to fame was quick and concise little blurbs. If someone wanted a full page essay, they would have posted it on livejournal, blogger, or whatever blog/diary/journal site that already exists.
Expand it to 240, Hell, even an even 200... but making it Yet Another Journal Program.... ugh.
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Right now people have taken to including a picture of text in their tweet when announcing big stuff. This is a disaster. It doesn't wrap well for different screen sizes and it makes things hard those assistive devices for poor sight, as they are better at reading text to them than communicating pictures.
Something must be done. Maybe this is the right fix.
After we fix that we can go on to eliminating vertical videos.
http://lkml.org/lkml/2005/8/20/95
Twitter is dying because of its open structure and limited message size. Facebook is eating their lunch. The basic difference? Message size. So, Twitter thinks they can out FB Facebook. I dunno. I don't bother with twitter because of the 140 char limit. Hmmmmm... This might lure me into bothering with it. But can I control who follows me? No. Nemmind.
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Twitbook 2016
twitter is giving up essential part of what makes twitter successful.
limitations of form concentrates the minds and enhances the power and effect of content.
that is why (usually, not always, it is true) poetry is greater than prose and a play or movie with time limits will beat up a mutipart tv drama, etc etc.
"Bob Snodgrass reporting from San Francisco.
Twitter officials scheduled a news conference to explain the rationale behind the much higher limit. But unfortunately, people stopped paying attention after 45 seconds, so we don't really know why they increased the limit.... ooh, look! A kitten video! Bob Snodgrass signing out."
So Twitter will become fatter - Twatter?
I missed the whole point of twitter. It's just a listserve with a 140 character limit.
Consider that the limit of 140 characters is a blessing. It inspires us to be pithy, to craft our utterances to achieve maximum effect.
Art thrives when it is constrained by limits of some kind. An example:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
If it weren't for deadlines, nothing would be late.
Soon all those people who really have nothing worth saying can use a whole lot more words to say it.
Can't wait for the pics!
Nobody believes that bullshit propaganda
email!
I don't see it as "suicide" any more than being able to attach photos to a Tweet was. You'd get the headline in the Tweet and the article in an attached text file.
Because it's not April 1st.
We used to have a Bill of Rights. Now, with the rights gone, all we have left is the bill.
self-obsessed people prattling on about nothing important, I'm impressed someone could monetize narcissism of the masses
@slashdot I just took a big greasy dump
I don't get why cell phone manufacturers don't have a feature to record a proper horizontal video while holding the phone vertically.
Because the Android CDD requires the camera to have the same orientation as the screen. Section 7.5.5 (Camera Orientation) states:
So in the CDD's terms, what you're asking for is a way to crop 9:16 video down to 4:3 while recording it.
So basically they invented a forum.
Woooo, it's so innovative, I feel dizzy.
Just cruising through this digital world at 33 1/3 rpm...
Twitter: the confetti of the internet, now with even more contentless crap!
Just cruising through this digital world at 33 1/3 rpm...
When they say 10,000 characters is this for everyone or only latin alphabets?
If you include a single Emoji in your message will you then be limited to 5,000 characters?
Old sch00l l1m1ts:
GSM 7-bit = 160 characters
8859-1 = 140 characters
UCS-2 = 70 characters
Faggots follow twitter faggots
The news isn't that twitter will do this. It's just that someone said twitter will do it.
Because there aren't enough North Koreans to throw the damn missile.
Why worry?
When letters
Seven score suffice,
Trim the excess,
Be concise
Burma Shave
"That which does not kill us makes us stranger." -Trevor Goodchild
An organisation that runs a large IRC server with web frontend.. that makes money by mining the social graph and advertising... has released a press release they increase self-imposed post length limit.
Tech news indeed!
This would be much better - count syllables and enforce a 5-7-5 structure on all tweets.
I like Twitter for a reason, and that boils down to its short messages. To me its what every RSS aggregator tried to be.
If its contents becomes anything like the spam i get in Facebook, i'll have to find an alternative that technically minded people like.
Hivemind harvest in progress..
The seismic event, which measured a magnitude of 5.1, occurred 19 kilometers (12 miles) east-northeast of Sungjibaegam, the United States Geological Survey said.
Isn't it all going to be like this?
It's likely a fusion-boosted bomb, not a H bomb. A small amount of fusion fuel serves as a neutron source to increase fission events in the plutonium, thus allowing to build a warhead more powerful at the same size or smaller at the same yield.
It's 2015. Er, I mean... 2016.
So say we all
Several prominent tweeters wanted to protest against this action, but they couldn't fit enough expletives into 140 characters...
This must be the most momentous, earth-shattering event since Instagram allowed rectangular photos! My predictions for 2016:
- Snapchat snaps to be viewable for 6 months after opening.
- Vine clip limit extended to 90 minutes.
- Dice completes gradual 'stealth beta' transformation of Slashdot.
- Civilization altering asteroid strike leaves Usenet newsgroups as most important social media.
Overnight there is going to be zillions of articles copy-pasted illegally[*] and that's going to create a mess. I'm concerned that it will make the business of media and news even more worthless. It will also make it even easier for people to self-publish as getting a blog or domain main is a small barrier to entry, which is a good thing. Yet journalist college degrees etc. and credentials will even get more meaningless.
I'm pissed that newspaper physically shrank and are rarely read anymore. Give me back newspapers from the 90s. Even the TV news are rarely watched these days. Although there's no conspiracy behind this, people get increasingly isolated and ill-informed or not informed these days and I suppose that's threatening western democracy itself. Yes you can read in amazing detail about any topic you like but only you will have read it. Other people will read into their echo chambers, including old-fashioned (very unhelpful) bullshit comments about such and such issue being the Jews's fault. (in association with the Rothschilds, the media, Israel, the US, the terrorists or any group you can think of)
[*] It's nominally illegal most times.
We'll see if this works.
I have a sawbuck on "Will fade to black within two years."
A Fusion boosted bomb is an H bomb... If they got some other element to fuse... We are in a shit of trouble.
Fixed that for you!
aging systems with multiple text-entry fields. You know, like they'll start a message wherever the cursor goes, then tab to the next field when they run out of space. Or they'll fill the first 140 characters with salutations and declarations of importance. People suck at titles, headings, and summaries. The (questionable) beauty of twitter is to force people to write only short, complete messages, easily read at a glance.
De-twittering twitter makes it email, and a twitter feed with 50 headlines saying "Important: read this" is pretty useless.
That's all it is. commercial entities needed more space to drop in more click bait.
Catchy headline, then low quality information trying to sell something.
So something exploded. That means what exactly?
We have satellites in orbit, did they measure anything? H-Bombs are triggered by nuclear bombs. The least I'd expect is some radiation.
So wake me when you catch some rays.
We used to have a Bill of Rights. Now, with the rights gone, all we have left is the bill.
I have never used twitter. The thing that made me completely uninterested in using it was mainly the 140 character limit. I get the impression that is something from the days of flip phones with tiny screens and having to type with a number keypad.
I figured as well that the 140 char limit would just make intelligent conversation impossible. So there would be zero content worth following.
At 10000 chars, maybe I'll sign up for an account - maybe.
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Anything worth saying, and things worthless, can be condensed into 140 characters.Tweets shouldn't bring you the evening news.
For me, 140 characters was way too short to say anything interesting. I wanted to be able to tweet about a paragraphs worth of text in order to be able to have any meaningful conversation. I think 10,000 characters is too long, that will break the short message format that differentiates the service.
Call me when I can embed a VM* in a tweet.
* virtual machine, not voicemail.
Dear Slashdot: next time you want to mess with the site, add a rich-text editor for comments.
So how is it different than email - ultimately? Twitter is irrelevant!
Who wants to read essays on twitter?
... they shall rename themselves "tumblr"...