People tweeting 4,000 character tweets will be finding less people reading their thoughts.
And if you’re ranting that much in a tweet, start a blog.
And if you’re ranting that much in a tweet, start a blog.
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Twitter to Increase Tweet Character Limit to 4,000, Elon Musk Says
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Maybe it’s quicker because of fewer users 🤭
I feel like the Twitter coverage here is leading to similar problems on this site.
It'll be interesting to see how this plays out.
But let's remember... 4,000 characters is the maximum.
It doesn't mean every Tweet must now be a 500 word essay.
But let's remember... 4,000 characters is the maximum.
It doesn't mean every Tweet must now be a 500 word essay.
If a short post is called a Tweet, is a 4k post called a Screech? 🤔
Ruining twitter May be the secondary focus as he’s previously touted a company rebrand before being squeezed to purchase.
More primarily, you’ve noticed his tweets are almost completely focused on political or twitter not Tesla a very viable and successful company.
Tesla has already received shareholder approval for share but backs which begins VEEY soon so as that stock has tanked (70% from highs or under 1/2 of 2 year highs) … Tesla buy backs are at a phenomenal sale!!
Makes you really wonder the main intent goin on here
and you know whom benefits Elon, employees participating in share holdings and Tesla itself.
This is not important news. What IS Important is the revelation of Twitter being a propapagnda machine and censoring arm of the Democrats, FBI and DHS. That should scare everyone on either side of the isle, assuming the REALLY care about freedom, and not only their particular form of toxic political ideology. Way to miss the GIANT story, MacRumors, and report an insignificant technical change. Red herring much?
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Agreed. I even had trouble just getting through yours. Hehe just kidding 🫣
That's too much logic for this forum. Please refrain from being so sensible in the future, please.
sounds like they're shutting down services to rework them, not because they're broken.
LAMP is oldschool. manually managing microservices is yesterday's tech. kubernetes is today. Twitter shouldn't need that many engineers IMO.
and let's not act as if Twitter had zero issues with uptime before elon bought Twitter
it sounds to me like if twitter did shut down, it's Elon's fault, not engineers. but if twitter didn't shut down, it's thanks to the engineers, nothing really to do with Elon.
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Are you kidding me? Nobody wants to work at Twitter, lol. That place is about to implode.
THIS.
twitter's irritating and overly short sound-bite/character limitation was almost designed for flame wars, because it prevented people from being able to have rational, fact-based, evidence-supported CONVERSATIONS.
With such short posts, it was impossible to have anything but a scream-fest, which is why I vacated the platform.
I recently returned to see if it has improved in a post Dorsey environment, and given the utterly horrific prior management - it literally had nowhere to go but up.
What I've seen so far is a vast improvement, and I find it humorous that the only people screeching about it are whining that the moderation now appears to be more balanced, a painful experience that only a certain segment of the audience is complaining about. The same audience who declared they'd move to Canada if Trump won in 2016, but never left...
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If you only want the information from certain posters, you don’t even have to follow them.
Create lists with certain topics and add them to those. It gives a more structured system for yourself.
I was more engaged in Twitter and that earlier, so I have a fairly good list-system of topics that interests/interested me. I don’t check those much either these days.
Reference of focus changes, and info seems to arrive from other sources than Twitter nowadays.
Some people think he was loaned that money specifically to quash it, because of its utility in reporting and sharing news virtually instantly, bypassing censors, and to enable citizens to organize and protest against repressive regimes. But who really knows?
There probably won't be a real replacement for Twitter per se. Twitter was never really profitable, but it became essential infrastructure, not just for citizens and for news, but for many companies that used it as a customer service tool. It was certainly a networking tool; everyone I knew in the web biz joined it at the start, like many CSS developers and web tool authors.
But the whole point of the web is resilience. The growth of Mastodon, with its decentralized nature, will be interesting to see. In some sense it feels like a step back to personal websites or even BBSes; fragmenting parts of the online experience into bubbles of likeminded individuals, vs. the potential to unite people. But maybe Mastodon will be how Twitter as a concept ultimately survives, in a kind of hardy variant that can't be taken down by a single person.
4000 is a lot!! Looking to see all the other changes Elon introduces in the future.
Twitter can never be a neutral independent platform representing the voice of the people. Two days before the elections, Musk called to vote for the Republican Party. That’s very problematic as he can tweak the algorithm to suppress tweets, block accounts and let alternative facts go rampant.