Twitter Considers Boosting Tweet Length Limits as High as 10,000 Characters

[PaulRustad007]

I do not want to read a novel on twitter...the 140 cap was great. You got your point across and it was over.

 

[C DM]

I do not want to read a novel on twitter...the 140 cap was great. You got your point across and it was over.

Except for when the point was made without spacing and too many abbreviations that made it a job to try to even decipher what was said let alone what the point was.

 

[chino-rican]

Where does it talk about how long it takes for developers to make the change?

It doesn't, and I see your point. I was just thinking back to this text:

According to people familiar with Twitter's plans, speaking with Re/code, the project is referred to as "Beyond 140" and has a tentative launch window around the end of Q1 2016.

Obviously the administrative stuff takes the longest, and not the actual programming.

 

[C DM]

It doesn't, and I see your point. I was just thinking back to this text:

Obviously the administrative stuff takes the longest, and not the actual programming.

It's a combination of different things, spanning from figuring out what the increase would actually be, where it would apply, how it would affect different places, trying out various different options, doing user studies on those different options, tweaking the options, narrowing them down, doing a full implementation of one or a few of them, doing some actual end-user bucket (A/B) testing, perhaps doing some more tweaks on it, and actually releasing it as an actual feature. Definitely a whole lot of things from a whole lot of people and departments beyond development that go into even small (as far as the general one sentence idea at least) changes like this.

 

[PinkyMacGodess]

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?

OR how about not counting after the '@' sign, until the next space, and not counting html links against the 140.

THAT would get my vote!

The idea of twitter is that it should be 'short and sweet'. 'Elegant'...

Almost like programming: short, sweet, elegant...

 

[fit24]

I do not want to read a novel on twitter...the 140 cap was great. You got your point across and it was over.

I agree. I like the brevity of Twitter.