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Twitter to Increase Tweet Character Limit to 4,000, Elon Musk Says
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What are you talking about? How will they charge people to “access their long-form content?”
Plenty of platforms where you can post long messages. The point of twitter is actually in the name. You can tweet. Not sing the whole bohemian rhapsody. You tweet. That is why it’s twitter.
As the ”richest man” in the galaxy and CEO of Merdaverse Corp I too am increasing the length of Merdeposts to 4000 characters long so that I can manipulate my bootlicking followers easier and make longer attacks against my critics and anyone who wants to tax me.
Or it might help saying things actually meaningful rather than shouting meaningless sound bites. I think Twitter character limit encouraged populists a la trump because in 140-280 characters you can just over simply reality and you can’t argument properly without using dirty tricks.
Twitter was awful, so maybe it’s a good idea it changes and it might actually become an interesting place to be.
Never in my many years, have I seen a bigger fool, so spectacularly destroy a business.
Very sad for the millions of people who have had a great experience with Twitter.
Very sad for the millions of people who have had a great experience with Twitter.
Well done for believing all of that 😂
Independent thinking success. Please let us know when you are ready to praise subsidised corporations, NASA and public transport.
Which as it should always have been. Microblogging was awful and one of the worst things happened to internet.From micro-blogging to, uh, regular blogging.
Why should anyone believe what Elon says about this sort of thing?
That’s my conspiracy theory: he’s destroying it on purpose to save humanity.
I keep getting the feeling that Musk overpaid for Twitter. And that he doesn't have the necessary insight to turn it into a company worth near the price. But who knows, if anyone has the resources to make something of the opportunity then it is Musk. He just hasn't done much yet to make people want to use the service, other then letting us all get the blue tick.
A topic is trending because it or its hashtags are being referred to a lot, either organically or artificially, in the form of posts, shares, mentions, retweets, etc. by either people or bots.
Sure, scrap Twitter's unique selling point. Why not?
I don't use Twitter but something I liked about it was that it forced people to be concise. That little appeal is gone now.
It's just going to be a more long-winded version of what it was. Just think about all the content which really doesn't need to be four times as long, but now will be.
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Imagine Qelon uses his 4000 characters to explain why he believed covid would be nearly zero cases by April 2020 and why he is attacking Anthony Fauci today.
Rather he wants his Qelon army use very long tweets to flood the platform with long streams of garbage that are impossible to reply to. Nobody sensible would want to waste so much time replying to 4000 characters of garbage. This will make it look like their super long tweets are unchallengeable.
Twitters core customer base is:
-Crazy unemployed left wing arm chair warriors here to defend the world against the right.
-Crazy unemployed right wing arm chair warriors here to defend the world against the left.
-Upset Karen's here to make sure the injustice of waiting too long for a free drink at Starbucks is righted.
-Old people still lost in the AOL chat lobby.
It's a winning formula.
In terms of MacRumors posting this story.......what else are they going to put on here? It's not like there are constant Mac specific things going on. I'm sure a lot of people reading have Twitter accounts and would be interested. I'll take this stuff over seeing another interview with Rene Richie.
-Crazy unemployed left wing arm chair warriors here to defend the world against the right.
-Crazy unemployed right wing arm chair warriors here to defend the world against the left.
-Upset Karen's here to make sure the injustice of waiting too long for a free drink at Starbucks is righted.
-Old people still lost in the AOL chat lobby.
It's a winning formula.
In terms of MacRumors posting this story.......what else are they going to put on here? It's not like there are constant Mac specific things going on. I'm sure a lot of people reading have Twitter accounts and would be interested. I'll take this stuff over seeing another interview with Rene Richie.
The whole POINT of Twitter was to be as brief and concise as possible. I mean, we don’t need 4,000 characters to say, “I rather dislike Elon Musk today” or, “I rather like Elon Musk today.”
Only one of those statements gets you banned on Twitter…
Only one of those statements gets you banned on Twitter…
Yes let’s just taste the sand by going in with the entire head. Any company laying off 30-50% of its employees is an indicator for a great functioning business. Let’s rather celebrate electric cars because they’re so green and mass market affordable and totally not overpriced toys for tech nerds without a concept of mass market penetration.
I liked twitter for the short tid bits of info. If I wanted to read a book from someone ranting, I would go to reddit or Facebook lol...
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