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11-08-2017, 05:59 AM
Twitter’s 280-character limit is exactly what tweets didn’t need
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I cannot put it in 280 characters more plainly than that.
Giving every single Twitter user 280 characters to blather on is a big mistake, and like many, I blame millennials for this change.
SEE ALSO: Why Twitter's 30 million bots are here to stay (http://mashable.com/2017/10/16/twitter-bots-here-to-stay/)
Twitter was created by Gen X-er Jack Dorsey, who's actually about to celebrate his 41st birthday. As often the children of Baby Boomers, Generation X-ers still appreciate something about scarcity and compromise. Dorsey exemplified this by building Twitter on the incredibly limited backbone of SMS and figured out how to make it work within the 160-character limit, which is how we ended up with that precious 140 characters. Then Twitter turned each tweet into a virtual Matryoshka doll, nesting more and more stuff — photos, Twitter handles, and video — inside the same 140-character space. It was quite a trick. Read more... (http://mashable.com/2017/11/07/280-characters-ruins-twitter/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial)
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I cannot put it in 280 characters more plainly than that.
Giving every single Twitter user 280 characters to blather on is a big mistake, and like many, I blame millennials for this change.
SEE ALSO: Why Twitter's 30 million bots are here to stay (http://mashable.com/2017/10/16/twitter-bots-here-to-stay/)
Twitter was created by Gen X-er Jack Dorsey, who's actually about to celebrate his 41st birthday. As often the children of Baby Boomers, Generation X-ers still appreciate something about scarcity and compromise. Dorsey exemplified this by building Twitter on the incredibly limited backbone of SMS and figured out how to make it work within the 160-character limit, which is how we ended up with that precious 140 characters. Then Twitter turned each tweet into a virtual Matryoshka doll, nesting more and more stuff — photos, Twitter handles, and video — inside the same 140-character space. It was quite a trick. Read more... (http://mashable.com/2017/11/07/280-characters-ruins-twitter/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial)
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