Twitter 140-Character Limit About to Change

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It was reported earlier today that Twitter is looking at ways to address its 140 characters per tweet limitation, with one proposal suggesting a maximum of 10,000 characters in a single tweet. Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey has indicated, via a tweet, that changes will be made with the way the social media platform handles longer messages.

In his tweet, which consists solely of a screenshot of a previously written message, Dorsey acknowledges that a change is necessary because the current 140-character limitation poses a great inconvenience for users who desire to post longer tweets. It requires them to write longer messages, take a screenshot of them, and then upload them to the social media platform.

Dorsey does not explicitly refer to the recent 10,000-character report in his tweet, but he indicates that similar changes are being considered as he praises text-based tweets as an alternative to uploading screenshots because they allow users to highlight and search for written content.

While one cannot be certain what the changes to Twitter will involve, Dorsey's comment that tweetstorms—rapid and sudden increases in activity regarding a certain subject—will not be disappearing from Twitter lends credence to the previous 10,000-character report which suggested that tweets will retain their current 140-character size by default for readability and shareability purposes.

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Cessna172Posted:

Im always on Twitter because its much smaller text and easy to read lots of tweets. id hate this

TricksPosted:

I go on Twitter so I don't have to read huge articles. Just bump it up to 500 or 1000. 10,000 is a bit much.

StrokesPosted:

thank god for that! 140 characters limits us quite a bit

CongenitalPosted:

Although I hate the 140 char limit, I thing it'll change Twitter. It's one of the things which makes Twitter, Twitter.

CongenitalPosted:

Chandler- I hate the 140 limit it is really annoying to tweet twice about 1 thing as some people didn't see the first one and they get confused


I get confused most of time, I just put (1/how many tweets it'll take)

ZooklaPosted:

I hate the 140 limit it is really annoying to tweet twice about 1 thing as some people didn't see the first one and they get confused

KatsumiPosted:

Imo the 140 character limit was a very iconic of Twitter and i think that they may suffer from having tweets that are exceedingly long

BrigandPosted:

I think a 250 character limit is good enough. 10k character limit is just way too much for a single tweet.

SkyPosted:

this is better in my opinion

SkittlePosted:

I think this is a good and bad thing, for sure it allows people to really say what they want, but having a limit does definitely make the tweets more creative in a sense.


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