Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey: the 140-Character Limit 'Is Staying' 67
An anonymous reader writes: The rumor that Twitter will scrap its 140-character limit for tweets just won't die. In an interview with NBC this morning, CEO Jack Dorsey has gone on record to say that the limit is staying.
Like that's gonna matter (Score:1)
He said that they had no intention of messing with the chronological timeline, and here we are.
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Now that Twitter has made its final decision, that it will be sticking strictly to the 140-character limit, a new chance has opened for others to offer similar service offering messages with longer length
Yes. It's called Facebook.
Twitter has always been a solution in search of a problem. With the 140 character limit its impossible to conduct any meaningful communication. Without the limit, its no different than the gazillion other places where people can post their self-important, mindless drivel that nobody give two shits about
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I love how the '140 chars isnt enuffs!' argument is brought up on the site that popularized the term 'RTFA'.
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seventeen syllables are
more than sufficient
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Now that Twitter has made its final decision, that it will be sticking strictly to the 140-character limit....
Simple solution...
Tweet: "Bob check your mail"
Tweet: "Bob check my blog"
Tweet: "Bob look up! I am sitting across from you at the dinner table."
Flash Required = Fail (Score:1)
Sorry, I'm not going to use Flash just so I can see some interview. I know how to read, post a transcript of the interview.
The war on white space (Score:1)
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YesabsolutelyrightIthinkEnglishisgoingtolookalooklikegermaninthenodistantfuture.
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YesabsolutelyrightIthinkEnglishisgoingtolookalooklikegermaninthenodistantfuture.
That's how Thai, Laos and Myanmar script is actually written (zero spaces).
And by using diacritical marks to indicate vowels, those languages are extremely economical. (Twitter-friendly).
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Also there are people who don't write the spaces in "a lot" or "at least"
That would be what we call misspelled.
Way back when, a college friend got a paper back from a professor with the following written across the first page in big, red marker:
"a lot" is two words, remember this or I will kill you
He never misspelled it again.
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"I'm not wrong, I'm just changing the definition of right!"
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These days we say this (is, a, message, )
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I wish I could argue with this, but I cannot.
140? (Score:1)
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the space also counts as a character. so that's 7.
Yes - twitter is for (Score:2)
People that can't put two complete thoughts toge
Also said during the interview (Score:1)
>>Twitter founder and chief executive Jack Dorsey insists his social media platform does not censor user content, despite suspicion suggesting otherwise.
>>"Absolutely not," he told TODAY's Matt Lauer
Bullshit. #FreeStacy
This is why CEOs earn so much money (Score:5, Funny)
Right... (Score:3)
This is right after he said Twitter wasn't censoring anyone. When there's ample evidence of people being told to delete factual tweets, because it hurts someones feels.
You're doing a bang up job there Jack. You opened at nearly $17.20 and closed at just above $16.50 in after hours trading.
Oh, Jack Dorsey is doing much worse than that (Score:3)
About a year ago, Twitter was trading in the 50s [battleswarmblog.com]. So Jack Dorsey has managed to destroy more than half the value of the company.
What do you expect from the genius who hired Sarkeesian to protect free speech [battleswarmblog.com], which is like hiring Ted Bundy to run a battered women’s shelter
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Twitter has never generated a profit and loses a couple hundred million dollars every year.
That is not possible. If they never generated a profit, what money are they spending over their income every year?
Increase it a bit, at least (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Increase it a bit, at least (Score:4, Insightful)
You should post in Chinese then. 140 characters is plenty in a logographic writing system.
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I bet there's a scary german word for that
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Or better, shrink it down to 1 bit!
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I tried to post a 0 in response to this, but Slashdot wouldn't let me reply with that as my whole comment.
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Whew! (Score:5, Funny)
I don't think I could take more that 140 characters of Donald Trump at one time!
Donald Trump. Just say no.
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The Real True One And Only Donald would never post as AC! Imposter! :-)
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Truth. Fortunately, I seriously doubt a man of Trump's... profession would actually ever visit /.
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If I weren't so lazy, I would totally make a new account just to reply to this...unfortunately, I am lazy.
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Just in case (Score:3)
Incentives for crass stupidity (Score:4, Interesting)
I've mixed feelings over social media in general, but Twitter in the specific makes my blood boil.
It's a medium that seems designed to kill off nuance, civility and sophistication of thought. By forcing people into 140 characters and providing social incentives for them to use those 140 characters to say something that will be shared as widely as possible, it encourages them to make the crassest, most polarizing statements possible. I'd put Twitter as the number one reason that so many online debates these days devolve into bitter mud-slinging between the loudest fringes of two opposing echo-chambers.
The rapid-response culture of twitter just makes things worse. Combined with the anonymity of online interactions, it compels people to speak before they've had a chance to do a sense-check and think through the consequences. There's no shortage of examples of responsible individuals in major corporations who have thrown away careers because they got sucked into the vortex that Twitter creates. One example, former Microsoft director Adam Orth and the "deal with it" furore over the planned always-online functionality for the Xbox One [eurogamer.net]. Now, you could argue that in this case, Twitter did us a service by providing him with a platform to air his (or the company's) "true feeling". I'm not necessarily sure that's the right response, though. I strongly suspect pretty much everybody has "true feelings" which are pretty appalling at times (I know I do) and a huge part of social interaction is toning those things down before they can fly from your mouth (or indeed, stopping them altogether). Twitter, by design, takes the brakes off.
Some people can be incredibly witty and lucid within a single sentence. You see those in the occasional +5 Funny or +5 Insightful post on slashdot. Those people are a minority (and most of them struggle to manage it consistently). Most one-line posts are badly written crap (and usually from ACs). Twitter just institutionalizes that, except with less anonymity.
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Brevity is better than waffle, given the choice...
Rgds
Damon
Channeling Bill Gates (Score:2)
140 characters should be enough for anyone.
customers (Score:2)
140 is staying...but does that preclude expanding? (Score:2)
That Jack said 140 characters is staying, I'm wondering might be one of those Steve Jobsian deft maneuvers where you say what people are listening for, but aren't actually saying what you're planning (and thus don't actually ANSWER the question).
I'd not mind Twitter to stick to 140 characters for tweets as they appear in the Feed. In fact, I tweeted Jack my suggestion:
- 140 characters Tweets would stay. You could continue to tweet 140 characters at a time, OR the 140 character tweet could also be a Summary
Someone still uses twitter? (Score:1)
Stupid platform used by stupid people.