Twitter Testing Extending Character Limit To 240

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In a blog post today, Twitter has announced that they are testing a 280 character limit. The increase comes because in languages like English, Spanish, Portuguese, or French, you can't convey as much information in one character as with languages like Japanese, Korean, and Chinese.

While I'm not a Twitter user, I can say the few times I have tried it the character limit could be a pain. The testing will only be in small groups, and Twitter is deciding if it will roll out the change to all users. Of course being Twitter, there is already backlash to the decision.

We want every person around the world to easily express themselves on Twitter, so we're doing something new: we're going to try out a longer limit, 280 characters, in languages impacted by cramming (which is all except Japanese, Chinese, and Korean).
 
Man is like my grandmother was, just doesn't have a filter between his head and his mouth. When she died her funeral consisted only of family members that lived in the area.
 
sfsuphysics said:
Man is like my grandmother was, just doesn't have a filter between his head and his mouth. When she died her funeral consisted only of family members that lived in the area.
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People with massive egos / narcissist tendancies don't usually have filters. They speak what is on their mind because their ego tells them that everyone wants to listen to them.

It's the same reason he won't just stop tweeting. In his mind, he feels we all care what he has to say.
 
It doesn't really matter what they do. People post a strings of messages these days as 'threads' where they reply to themselves 40 times over and we have entire media organizations writing articles of which the subject is just a tweet.

People seem to get what they want out of it the way it is.
 
This is hilarious considering Evan Williams (Twitter co-founder, not the bourbon) was on a BBC soundbite complaining about clickbait and how Twitter is being used as an avenue for it which is causing everything to be "dumbed down."

Dude, Twitter created clickbait because of that very character restriction that reduces complex thought to one-line ideas in the first place. Glad the Twit lords are finally realizing what a cancer they created.
 
It'll be funny to see how much more hostile people can be with more space.

It will also be nice to see how many people can lose their train of thought in 240 characters.
 
Twitter is the only big social media platform I use and I'm planning on ditching it. In the past year my Twitter feed has just transformed into a river of hateful pus and arguing. You put up a reasoned statement and random people you never heard of before just reply "Way to go douchebag!" and all I said was "Hey that's a nice recipe, I'll give it a try!"
 
Twitter is just the same group from tumblr. SJWs complaining about everything. I quit twitter a few months ago even though when I was active I didn't use it much in the first place.
 
I have never used Twitter, never got the whole concept - I guess I am that crotchety old man - hey, I could use Twitter for "get off my lawn!" - anyway, the whole concept seemed silly to me from the get-go, and every time I see someone's "tweets" (seriously, who comes up with this stuff? Twits? Nitwits?) quoted, I am ever thankful I'm not on the platform. I wouldn't get much in anyway, as I am not in the habit of 'following' people anyway, least of all so-called celebrities. Even worse than Facebook, the whole thing seems to be simply a contest to see who gets the most followers.
 
I'm a wordy poster. Much as I hate to admit it, it is my nature. I've always found twitter's 140 char limit a bit tight.

As a side benefit we get to see Trump have even more space to make an even bigger idiot of himself :D
 
Jester1550 said:
Double the characters, double the people offended?
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He'll just repeat the same kindergarten level sentences 3 times instead of just 2..... The election is proof the dumbing down of our countries population is working.... It just back fired on the GOP when the dumb people voted for an extremely stupid candidate.....
 
When will Kim Jung Un get a twitter account so we can finally get on with this epic flame war?
 
Social media is just a way for people to complain, complain, complain. Not a part of it. I have a twitter account just so I don't have to create logins to other places :)
 
daglesj said:
Twitter is the only big social media platform I use and I'm planning on ditching it. In the past year my Twitter feed has just transformed into a river of hateful pus and arguing. You put up a reasoned statement and random people you never heard of before just reply "Way to go douchebag!" and all I said was "Hey that's a nice recipe, I'll give it a try!"
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Can always go to gab.ai.

They always had a larger character count and I am almost certain that is the reason Twitter is upping theirs.
 
Zion Halcyon said:
Can always go to gab.ai.

They always had a larger character count and I am almost certain that is the reason Twitter is upping theirs.
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Is this the next big social media thing?

What is going to be the next outlet for people who are not SJWs?

We need a new YouTube, Facebook and Twitter apparently.

Bad news is, only the disenfranchised usually make the switch and so you end up with a site that really only attracts the fringes.

There's a ton of people in the middle who are like "wtf- what world do I live in" but don't have the courage or ability to speak up and do something about it because they are afraid of their lives being ruined once they are labeled an "- ist" of some type.

Rant off.
 
Twitter could be good but it seems just about everyone I like posts 10 crap items to 1 good post. So I never use Twitter.
 
craigdt said:
Is this the next big social media thing?

What is going to be the next outlet for people who are not SJWs?

We need a new YouTube, Facebook and Twitter apparently.

Bad news is, only the disenfranchised usually make the switch and so you end up with a site that really only attracts the fringes.

There's a ton of people in the middle who are like "wtf- what world do I live in" but don't have the courage or ability to speak up and do something about it because they are afraid of their lives being ruined once they are labeled an "- ist" of some type.

Rant off.
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Gab.ai was founded on free speech, because they were tired of Twatter's censorship.
 
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