Twitter Considering 10,000-Character Limit for Tweets
http://recode.net/2016/01/05/twitter-considering-10000-character-limit-for-tweets/
Twitter is building a new feature that will allow users
to tweet things longer than the traditional 140-character limit,
and the company is targeting a launch date toward the end of Q1,
according to multiple sources familiar with the company's plans.
Twitter is currently considering a 10,000 character limit,
according to these sources.
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Given their policy of allowing people and organizations you've never
followed to contaminate your timeline with commercials and other
irrelevant content, with no way for you to disable that pipeline, it's
clear this is really all about permitting much vaster contamination of
this sort to take place. In the Twitter environment, so deeply saturated
with nasty trolls already, this will be a sea change of the worst
possible sort. Not the beginning of the end for Twitter, but a major
acceleration of the continuing process already leading rapidly toward
their demise.
--Lauren--
Lauren Weinstein ([email protected]): http://www.vortex.com/lauren
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Member: ACM Committee on Computers and Public Policy
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