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Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey: the 140-Character Limit 'Is Staying'
An anonymous reader writes: The rumor that Twitter will scrap its 140-character limit for tweets just won't die. In an interview with NBC this morning, CEO Jack Dorsey has gone on record to say that the limit is staying.
Because they have to make the tough executive decisions, like how long a tweet should be.
Now that Twitter has made its final decision, that it will be sticking strictly to the 140-character limit, a new chance has opened for others to offer similar service offering messages with longer length
Yes. It's called Facebook.
Twitter has always been a solution in search of a problem. With the 140 character limit its impossible to conduct any meaningful communication. Without the limit, its no different than the gazillion other places where people can post their self-important, mindless drivel that nobody give two shits about
This is right after he said Twitter wasn't censoring anyone. When there's ample evidence of people being told to delete factual tweets, because it hurts someones feels.
You're doing a bang up job there Jack. You opened at nearly $17.20 and closed at just above $16.50 in after hours trading.
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I wish they would increase it just a bit, say to 144, because sometimes I have things to say and they just don't seem to fit into 140 charac
Everything you know is wrong, Just forget the words and sing along.
I don't think I could take more that 140 characters of Donald Trump at one time!
Donald Trump. Just say no.
"Twitter users can relax, we remain absolutely committed to prohibit any text that may provoke any important thoughts or opinions."
Laws are rules for the court, but merely a bottom bar to hit for life. Think beyond laws in your actions always.
About a year ago, Twitter was trading in the 50s. So Jack Dorsey has managed to destroy more than half the value of the company.
What do you expect from the genius who hired Sarkeesian to protect free speech, which is like hiring Ted Bundy to run a battered women’s shelter
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I've mixed feelings over social media in general, but Twitter in the specific makes my blood boil.
It's a medium that seems designed to kill off nuance, civility and sophistication of thought. By forcing people into 140 characters and providing social incentives for them to use those 140 characters to say something that will be shared as widely as possible, it encourages them to make the crassest, most polarizing statements possible. I'd put Twitter as the number one reason that so many online debates these days devolve into bitter mud-slinging between the loudest fringes of two opposing echo-chambers.
The rapid-response culture of twitter just makes things worse. Combined with the anonymity of online interactions, it compels people to speak before they've had a chance to do a sense-check and think through the consequences. There's no shortage of examples of responsible individuals in major corporations who have thrown away careers because they got sucked into the vortex that Twitter creates. One example, former Microsoft director Adam Orth and the "deal with it" furore over the planned always-online functionality for the Xbox One. Now, you could argue that in this case, Twitter did us a service by providing him with a platform to air his (or the company's) "true feeling". I'm not necessarily sure that's the right response, though. I strongly suspect pretty much everybody has "true feelings" which are pretty appalling at times (I know I do) and a huge part of social interaction is toning those things down before they can fly from your mouth (or indeed, stopping them altogether). Twitter, by design, takes the brakes off.
Some people can be incredibly witty and lucid within a single sentence. You see those in the occasional +5 Funny or +5 Insightful post on slashdot. Those people are a minority (and most of them struggle to manage it consistently). Most one-line posts are badly written crap (and usually from ACs). Twitter just institutionalizes that, except with less anonymity.
YesabsolutelyrightIthinkEnglishisgoingtolookalooklikegermaninthenodistantfuture.
That's how Thai, Laos and Myanmar script is actually written (zero spaces).
And by using diacritical marks to indicate vowels, those languages are extremely economical. (Twitter-friendly).