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Twitter to Increase Tweet Character Limit to 4,000, Elon Musk Says

SnappleRumors said:
I’m not confident in my interpretation of your inference because I’m unaware of data supporting it. Please clarify what you are saying.
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What Im trying to say is just like what I wanted to say a few comments ago: why Elon musk doesn’t fire every single existing employee working for Twitter. Obviously there’s no data to support it because thats just my thought, however media report has mentioned some Workers are still working in Twitter because they hold some type of working visa and cannot change employer willy nilly. Why Elon musk doesn’t fire them as well? He totally can.

And then you mention “someone needs to be there to run Twitter”, which is true. Then i mention the visa situation.
 
Musk is a jerk and a criminal.
Whoever praises him is a jerk and a criminal.

They are not the first and will not be the last, but we know how they will end: hanging like salami looking at the land they have tried to poison.
Other than FREE SPEECH: they say the same things as Mussolini's nostalgics. IDENTICAL.
 
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Shirasaki said:
And then you mention “someone needs to be there to run Twitter”, which is true. Then i mention the visa situation.
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Thank you. Then my interpretation appears correct. Your post claims Musk terminated US citizens and retained H1B1 VISA holders.

As I said, I see no data to support that. If you have it, please share it.

As far as I know Twitter doesn’t publish the number of H1B1 VISA holders it employes. Some guesses put the number between only 200 and as high as 800. Today Twitter employees in the ballpark of 3700. The majority of those RIF’d are professionals of which the H1B1 VISA holders fit it.
 
Xand&Roby said:
Musk is a jerk and a criminal.
Whoever praises him is a jerk and a criminal.

They are not the first and will not be the last, but we know how they will end: hanging like salami looking at the land they have tried to poison.
Other than FREE SPEECH: they say the same things as Mussolini's nostalgics. IDENTICAL.
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Curious of the crime you think he has committed. Please elaborate.
And what exact overlap is there with those Mussolini fans from yesteryear?
 
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SnappleRumors said:
Thank you. Then my interpretation appears correct. Your post claims Musk terminated US citizens and retained H1B1 VISA holders.

As I said, I see no data to support that. If you have it, please share it.

As far as I know Twitter doesn’t publish the number of H1B1 VISA holders it employes. Some guesses put the number between only 200 and as high as 800. Today Twitter employees in the ballpark of 3700. The majority of those RIF’d are professionals of which the H1B1 VISA holders fit it.
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I never claim musk terminates US citizens and retained H1B1 visa holders. I’m just a little bit surprised Elon musk doesn’t just fire every single employee working in Twitter at the time of the takeover, including those holding some sort of working visas. Your interpretation is still wrong. The whole thing I’m imagining is just a “what if” scenario, not something actually happening.

Also, Twitter still having 3700 staff is astounding. Still don’t understand why Elon Musk Doesn’t fully commit to rebuild Twitter from the ground up, including rehiring all the workers of various profession, instead just half of it.

Again, the whole thing is just a what-if scenario. Not factual in any way, Shape or form. If you still insist on me talking about facts, then I have nothing left to say.
 
Shirasaki said:
The whole thing I’m imagining is just a “what if” scenario, not something actually happening.
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Ahh… gotcha. thanks. 👍

Businesses do not close their doors on Friday and replace the workforce and executive leadership over the weekend. Surely you understand that’s preposterous.

Musk bought Twitter ‘as is’. Twitter wasn’t an acquisition by a company within the same space where jobs are now duplicated and superfluous.

It clear Musk felt Twitter was severely over-staffed as well as staffed by those who no longer fit in the direction the company needs to go. Any reference to H1B1 employees is coming out of left field. I don’t understand it.
 
Kierkegaarden said:
I did a quick search and found that the ideal blog post length is 1,700-2,400 words — I don’t know what this translates into characters, but 4,000 characters was probably chosen in relation to the data I’m seeing. If you have a blog, or want to dip your toes into blogging to promote your brand, Twitter seems like an inexpensive platform to do so when you compare it to the others out there. I don’t currently have a blog, but would consider Twitter if I did — or at least to supplement my blog.
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A lot of people start their "blogs" on Substack these days. They're probably going after that, Medium, and Tumblr with this.
 
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krspkbl said:
Good news!

Always thought the character limit was dumb. Maybe in the very early days it made sense but I don't see why users should be limited.

I know people like to hate on Elon, and I get it, but Twitter is getting better with him in control. I saw a lot of people moving to Mastodon and I joined but the place is dead. Well, there are people posting but they are nobodies (Nobody I follow on Twitter is on it) AND most of the time they are talking about how much they hate Twitter.
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The character limit is the entire point of Twitter.

Do you remember Vine? Why was a platform offering 6 seconds videos so successful when people could have used YouTube instead?

If you want longer text just use Medium.
 
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cyb3rdud3 said:
There you go, it was to be expected. So much for the 'saviour' of free speech, you can post what ever hateful message you like as long as you don't point to competition or flaws of Elon Musk himself. Yup that is free speech ;)
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He’s also resorted to stirring fake drama to get more eyeballs and users on Twitter, all in the name of making ends meet at Twitter HQ.

There’s literally no difference between him and a garbage tabloid like The Sun.

What happened to being a genius inventor spending all his time on making the tech of the future and populating our solar system?

The way he has moved his “we’re going to mars in 10 years”-crowd away from his highly impractical but ambitious futurism fantasies and over to arbitrary mudslinging between the right and left wing is quite astonishing.

It doesn’t matter he does. They always agree and mimic his emotions.

And with that in mind, I’m looking forward to him ditching Twitter in a few years and going full time as a crypto scammer. He’ll want to fulfill his initial goal of revolutionizing how the World handles money.

His rat army will follow him over the edge as long as he’s making money and laughing in their faces.

Accounts will bleed and Musk long gone to his next endeavor.
 
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Kierkegaarden said:
I did a quick search and found that the ideal blog post length is 1,700-2,400 words — I don’t know what this translates into characters, but 4,000 characters was probably chosen in relation to the data I’m seeing. If you have a blog, or want to dip your toes into blogging to promote your brand, Twitter seems like an inexpensive platform to do so when you compare it to the others out there. I don’t currently have a blog, but would consider Twitter if I did — or at least to supplement my blog.
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Would Twitter be better than Substack?
 
wanha said:
For me, what makes Twitter so valuable is that it is:

1. Real time (news break there faster than anywhere else)
2. Allows me to read multiple perspectives on a breaking event within seconds (e.g. sports game, an unfolding crisis)

With 4000 character tweets, nr 2 goes out the window.

Thus, by doing away with the artificial 280 character limitation, Twitter becomes LESS useful in real time, not more.
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Honestly the only thing Twitter is good for is breaking/real-time news. I follow live sports on Twitter. Often times news breaks on Twitter before anywhere else. Musk should focus on the good aspects of Twitter and what it succeeds at that others don‘t (no one is going to FB, Instagram or Reddit for breaking news).
 
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For a service no one cares about, it seems to generate a lot of responses.

Eleven pages of them so far.
 
geartau said:
sounds like they're shutting down services to rework them, not because they're broken.
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that’s not how you work on things on a major platform…
geartau said:
LAMP is oldschool. manually managing microservices is yesterday's tech. kubernetes is today. Twitter shouldn't need that many engineers IMO.
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I was literally saying it’s not like a LAMP stack design…. As to the rest I use K8s extensively at work, but it doesnt solve everything my dude, it’s not one size fits all. Not every workload lends itself to containerization for one thing. And k8s doesnt magically abstract all ops work away, far from it, even on things containerized and running on those clusters.
 
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brand said:
The record number of users would disagree.
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supremedesigner said:
Twitter isn't dead. Far from it. It's exploding with more users. It's becoming more exciting! Facebook, Instagram and YouTube are dead.
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and advertising is down. Low ad buys + high user usage = more financial problems. The fact that advertisers arent as interested in being associated with that content from those users should also tell you something about the changing content on twitter.
 
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haydn! said:
Folks just need to stop giving this buffoon airtime. Twitter is dead.
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I mean, yeah, it's been offline since he fired all those engineers. The site has been down for weeks because the remaining employees can't even figure out how to start it back up. Everything predicted came true.
 
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Xand&Roby said:
Musk is a jerk and a criminal.
Whoever praises him is a jerk and a criminal.

They are not the first and will not be the last, but we know how they will end: hanging like salami looking at the land they have tried to poison.
Other than FREE SPEECH: they say the same things as Mussolini's nostalgics. IDENTICAL.
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What makes him a criminal?
 
This could be the end of twitter, if it's true that they lost a load of developers this could bring the service to its knees. :D
 
supremedesigner said:
Twitter isn't dead. Far from it. It's exploding with more users. It's becoming more exciting! Facebook, Instagram and YouTube are dead.
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Unprofitable for years BEFORE Musk, advertisers pulling out more and more (major and minor ad agencies are pausing multi-million dollar ad buys), increased users, class action lawsuits, and a skeleton crew to run it all?

Not good. It hasn't collapsed or died, but it sure ain't healthy! ;)

Musk thought twitter's problem was that it was run by "woke leftists." He never stopped to consider was run by people who were trying to make it profitable (regardless of politics). Now we get to watch him roll back policies only to find out why they were there in the first place. Having Musk in charge is like watching twitter have a stroke and learning to walk all over again.

Plus we get to see this dude walk directly into class action lawsuits as he breaks labor laws in CA and Ireland over mass firings.

Facebook and Instagram? Different debate. Lots of stuff to unpack there! Out of all of these, perhaps youtube is doing the best, but who knows...
 
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