Twitter will be sticking with its infamous 140-character limit on public posts. The company's CEO, Jack Dorsey, when asked in an interview if the limit was staying or if it will change, answered, "It's staying. It's a good constraint for us and it allows for of-the-moment brevity."
Dorsey made the comments on NBC's Today show to help celebrate Twitter's 10th anniversary. He added that the company is "changing a lot. We're always going to make Twitter better".
Twitter recently raised the limit of characters in direct messages from 140 to 10,000, but a recent rumor claimed that the company was considering a plan to increase the limit of characters in public posts up to 10,000 as well. Dorsey's statement would seem to contradict those rumors.
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Twitter CEO says its 140-character limit for posts is 'staying'
As it should be!
Great!
Good. If it takes more than 140, I won't read it
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I agree.
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Isn't it kind of lazy to say "I won't read more than 140 characters"
I didn't think 10,000 characters was a good idea, but doubling the character count would be good. Or making links or handles not count against the 140 would be good too.
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I was going to say the same thing either raise it a little bit or make it so that links and pics don't count towards the character count. The only problem i see with it is that people will start posting ridiculously long tweets filled with links.
Why is the Twitter 140-character limit referred to as infamous? I like the character limit. It's the most unique and distinguishing feature of Twitter.
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Glad it's staying!
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140 characters is barely enough for a full thought. I could understand them sticking with text only. And maybe even limiting the text to a certain amount of characters.
But then why allow bandwidth heavy videos and pictures. Twitter is ruined by video and pictures.. They should really be banning pictures and videos. And increasing the text limit.
Lol Twitter was always meant to be short and concise. Removing pictures and videos would help what exactly? I could see if you meant them counting towards your character limit but removing them altogether?? That's counterintuitive :)
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I'm sure this makes Trump happy. Heaven forbid he have enough space to elaborate on any of his ideas. Hahaha
don't use any social networking, but there should be a small limit.... not too large.... otherwise it would become more of a 'gossip' networking, and not social networking. Be social :) We wanna get to a 'point' at some time in a lifetime.
Cool, that's what makes Twitter unique! Hopefully it stays that way.
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I don't think it is good because if the character use more than 140 then the fuction will be the same as facebook....
Twitter were famous because it content simple and brief info which easy for people
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Well that sucks as 140 characters just isn't enough.
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140 is just not cool.They should adjust it to 840.There are times when an individual has something important to say ,howbeit, they are limited because of this.
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