PLEASE don't do this. Or at least wait until after the elections in the US are over. I can't even imagine (don't want to imagine) what trump would do with 10k characters.
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Seems like it's useful enough to many people who find it useful. Someone not finding something useful says absolutely nothing about the usefulness of that thing.
PLEASE don't do this. Or at least wait until after the elections in the US are over. I can't even imagine (don't want to imagine) what trump would do with 10k characters.
He'd make Mexico pay for it.
It's ok. He only knows 6 words.
There potential for abuse there. Everyone will talk in hashtags like Instagram.
I'm not interested in reading ranting blog posts in my Twitter feed. This will be the death of Twitter.
Instead, they should stop counting links and photos as part of the character count.
Instead, they should stop counting links and photos as part of the character count.
Of course it does. It tells us:
1. The commenter has heard of it.
2. Despite being aware of its existence they failed to find a way to integrate it into their workflow.
3. The commenter is primarily, if not exclusively, concerned with the content and not the platform.
There is a lot of information missing from the comment such as expectations, duration of trial, implementation strategy, technical knowledge and platform. The comment doesn't tell us a lot, but it does let us know that some end users who are familiar with the service don't always become activists for it.
This comment provides a light for why: if preconceived notions are not met early on then users who don't participate in the community will see mechanical responses to cultural shifts as a failure to refocus resources on said users. I hypothesis that this is perceived as wasteful because existing users already have some of their needs satisfied while this individual does not.
While true, it is also true that just because people use it does not mean that it is useful, which by definition implies practical purpose. If you consider that 50 to 80% of twitter content is not practical, constructive, or worthwhile I would still contend that it is, while definitely used, not very useful.
Well, to be fair, without something else, the individual subjective anecdotal comment of someone not finding something useful, on its own, really doesn't say anything about that thing as far as it relates to anyone else. All those things that are brought up could certainly plans role and might be worth of dicussion, but none of them might relate to anything as far as that comment goes which can easily simply be about someone that just doesn't like or need something, as has been the case for many things in life for ages pretty much.
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Again, useful to those who find it useful, just as is the case for all kinds of things in life.
My thoughts exactly. I really don't want/need Twitter to become like Facebook. I don't have the latter for a reason. I like the fact that I have to stick to 140 characters before I can post a Tweet. I wouldn't mind if Twitter expanded the text to, say, 200 characters. But 10,000 is pretty rediculous.
At this point, I'll be off of both Twitter and Instagram in a couple years as well.
And everyone has been saying Apple is doomed, since 2011, while these "hot" companies just a few years ago like Twitter or even Samsung have seen their bread winners declining over the years.
All of these companies are dying to be the front page of the web, if you will. But it won't happen. Too fragmented. Before long all of these services will do the same exact things, albeit slightly different. However, Apple had it right from the get go. It doesn't have to be a service: it provides the hardware that these services depend upon for existence. And as long as Apple's main apps remain the default for core services, we'll never have a front page to the web. which is fine by me.
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It wants to be your everything service. These services and their employees now exist to improve upon themselves, and improvement seems to mean that they'll just offer everything under the sun that every other service offers until it implodes upon itself. They won't be able to sustain growth. Fickle investors will then promptly leave.
I don't think he understands...
Twitter is popular because of its 140 character limit. Otherwise, they will be BlogSpot with RSS. Look how that turned out...
Twitter is popular because of its 140 character limit. Otherwise, they will be BlogSpot with RSS. Look how that turned out...
Man i appreciate the limited number of characters. 10,000 will be awful.
Instagram is the way to go methinks.
Instagram is the way to go methinks.
I think if you can't say what you want to say in under 140 characters, it shouldn't be said.
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You might be surprised...
It took a team of programmers nearly a year to just add two characters to the year on a project I was involved in. Everything had to change. The testing was excruciating...
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You might be surprised...
It took a team of programmers nearly a year to just add two characters to the year on a project I was involved in. Everything had to change. The testing was excruciating...
I disagree. Twitter has continually referred to itself as a "microblogging" platform. There is absolutely nothing "micro" about a 10K character post.
IMO, this will end up being the death of Twitter. And I know it will limit my use of the platform.
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I could live with EITHER 200 characters OR not counting usernames and hashtags count... but I'd vote "no" on giving both. Unfortunately, I don't have a vote.
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> 200 characters.
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True, it HAS (pass tense). This change will make it more like Facebook, and therefore, IMO, bad. It will lose it's essence.
In other news, Vine will allow videos up to 15 minutes of quick-cut gags and Instragram will allow up to 1000 photos in any aspect ratio of your food in one post.
I disagree. It can still have a similar function. Show 140 characters and then link to the rest with an ellipsis or something.
It's nothing in place now to stop people from using services like twit more/longer or whatever it is and just doing multiple posts with (1/xxx)
True, there are ways around the 140 char limit... but they are not mainstream options for the majority. But when the published limit if 140 chars is replaced with a limit of 10K characters, the freaking wheels would come off.
I can see them increasing the limit but not from 140 to 10,000. Tweets should be short so why not just go the easier route and simply double it to 280 instead?