Comment by percival_krusen
8 years ago
Note that they changed it to 280. It's possible to express a slightly more nuanced view in a tweet now. You've got room for a brief hedge or caveat along with your main point.
8 years ago
Note that they changed it to 280. It's possible to express a slightly more nuanced view in a tweet now. You've got room for a brief hedge or caveat along with your main point.
What's amazing was that when they introduced this change, a lot of dedicated Twitter addicts hated those long tweets with a passion, as if someone had cut their favorite cocaine with chalk. Now they can barely remember what it was like.
Twitter rots the brain. With every doubling of the message length, they will reduce the harmfulness of the product, bur also remove its addictive appeal at the same time. So every business metric they have tells them not to do it.