Twitter Plans To Go Beyond 140-Character Limit
Twitter is looking at ways to give users ways to go beyond the 140-character limit.
In addition to the long-form product, execs have been openly discussing the idea of tweaking how Twitter measures its 140-character limit by removing things like links and user handles from the count, multiple sources say. In the past, Twitter has tinkered with the limit in other ways. Twitter Cards are still beholden to the 140-character limit but are intended to help people (and advertisers) share lots of information, and Twitter added a “retweet with comment” option in April to give people more room to comment on tweets they share. The company also lifted the 140-character rule on private messages back in June.
Dorsey is apparently supportive of a potential change, a bold stance and yet another sign that he isn’t simply keeping the CEO seat warm until Twitter finds someone permanent…
As with all early products, there’s a chance the long-form feature may never make it to consumers. But Twitter is looking to mix things up, and tweaking its character limit would certainly do the trick.
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mea_mark September 29th, 2015 at 21:08
Removing user handles in the character count would do the most good. Twitter is about sharing, counting user handles character counts, reduces sharing. It’s really a no brainer, they just haven’t done it yet.
And please add an edit feature so that I can fix my typos. You can at least give me say, 5 minutes to realize I messed up. I don’t see my mistakes till I look at what I wrote a second time, after a break.