Twitter character limit considering to be changed

[timbo343]

Just heard on the radio that twitter's character limit is considering being changed to 10,000 characters... i hope so, sometimes 140 isn't enough

 

Twitter 140-Character Limit About to Change | Re/code

[mthomas08]

Likewise! The amount of times I just want those extra five words....

 

What I hope doesn't happen is pages and pages showing up on my news feed, assume there will be the usual "show more" button on all tweets.

[sted]

as above the amount of times you have to reword things as its 10 chars too long can be annoying but 10'000 seems excessive. Could it just not give you the option to auto split a tweet in 2 (or more) rather than just a blanket no you cant post it?

[timbo343]

I too would hate it to become like a facebook with people putting "essays" of text on their tweets. Usually after the first few lines i've moved on to something else.

[jdoyle]

140 to 10k seems too much of a leap. Keep It Small and Simple.

[hardtailstar]

I'm not a fan of more characters,

 

I like the fact I have to actual think what I am going to put to fit in 140 characters.

 

reading the article it looks like that they will have a 'continue reading' type feature after the 140.

[localzuk]

Not sure I like this idea. If it has no limit, what's the point? What sets them apart from other social networks then? They'd've got rid of their microblog idea.

 

I think a more sensible solution would be to add a separate part to their services where people can host their long posts as blog posts, and have it integrated/automatic so that they can expand a tweet into a blog post if they wish.

 

The original feeds should remain short and sweet.

[themightymrp]

Maybe 200 characters max would be OK, just for those few extra words. Any more than that and I'd lose interest

[korifugi]

microblog

 

I thought this was their original idea, microblogging. Short and sweet.

 

Upping to 10,000 words means it's become a full-on blog - hell, most blogs I've seen don't even go anywhere near 1000 words, let alone 10,000.

 

All this'll do is turn twitter over to the type of people that post

let's count to 100

1

2

etc...

on every facebook page they find.

[Arthur]

I hope so, sometimes 140 isn't enough

... and as Jack Dorsey's tweet demonstrates, having to use images to bypass the 140 character limit is ridiculous.

 

https://twitter.com/jack/status/684496529621557248

 

http://vgy.me/4TRK4Z.jpg

[mrbios]

It needs increasing, but certainly not to 10k. 250 would probably be a huge improvement.

[AJWhite1970]

Not sure if this is good news or not, our school website is built round Twitter as it stops the teachers waffling when posting departmental updates.....

[Arthur]

Twitter to keep 140-character limit, CEO says

 

Twitter Inc's 140-character tweets are here to stay, Chief Executive Jack Dorsey said on Friday, ending speculation that the microblogging site might abandon one of its trademark features for a 10,000-character limit.

 

"It's staying. It's a good constraint for us and it allows for of-the-moment brevity," Dorsey said on NBC's Today Show.

 

A Twitter spokesman declined to elaborate.

[elsiegee40]

This was on the cards months ago wasn't it?

[Arthur]

This was on the cards months ago wasn't it?

I don't think it had been officially confirmed before Friday?