good, though the change to links is going to encourage more bots
200 would be fine, but don't make it 1000 or something weird, part of twitter's charm is the limiting factor of such a small character count
[QUOTE=ProfHappycat7;50334495]200 would be fine, but don't make it 1000 or something weird, part of twitter's charm is the limiting factor of such a small character count[/QUOTE]
There's not much meaningful information i could fit in 140 characters or less, if they would just bump it up to maybe 500 characters I might be able to use the service. Youtube used to have a max character count of something like 600 and I can't even begin to tell you how many times I had to restructure my whole post, removing double spaces between sentences, scouring the thesaurus to find shorter synonyms, etc. And it drives me nuts to have to bastardize my perfectly good post.
For reference, that fairly short paragraph was 487 characters. I'd not even be able to fit the first sentence in a twitter post.
Character limit is racist because Japanese people can fit like 3-4x the info in the same number of characters as English.
[QUOTE=helifreak;50334642]Character limit is racist because Japanese people can fit like 3-4x the info in the same number of characters as English.[/QUOTE]
the longest tweet in terms of like actual length is arabic
I know this because we used the same character in troll titles here :v:
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[url]https://jii.moe/NkTe4vmGb.png[/url]
[QUOTE=Scratch.;50335134]the longest tweet in terms of like actual length is arabic
I know this because we used the same character in troll titles here :v:
[editline]17th May 2016[/editline]
[url]https://jii.moe/NkTe4vmGb.png[/url][/QUOTE]
wait what the fuck why are you posting from a PSP
also adding more characters isn't a bad idea considering you have to put someone's full username to tag them so longer names means less characters. I just hope it isn't something silly like 1k characters as mentioned
[QUOTE=butre;50334572]There's not much meaningful information i could fit in 140 characters or less, if they would just bump it up to maybe 500 characters I might be able to use the service. Youtube used to have a max character count of something like 600 and I can't even begin to tell you how many times I had to restructure my whole post, removing double spaces between sentences, scouring the thesaurus to find shorter synonyms, etc. And it drives me nuts to have to bastardize my perfectly good post.
For reference, that fairly short paragraph was 487 characters. I'd not even be able to fit the first sentence in a twitter post.[/QUOTE]Those double spaces between sentences were only there by accident, right? You weren't doing it on purpose, right?
[QUOTE=Fish_poke;50335168]wait what the fuck why are you posting from a PSP[/QUOTE]
user agent spoofing
[QUOTE=helifreak;50334642]Character limit is racist because Japanese people can fit like 3-4x the info in the same number of characters as English.[/QUOTE]
The joy of being bilingual in both Chinese and English.
[QUOTE=Fish_poke;50335168]wait what the fuck why are you posting from a PSP
also adding more characters isn't a bad idea considering you have to put someone's full username to tag them so longer names means less characters. I just hope it isn't something silly like 1k characters as mentioned[/QUOTE]
same reason I'm posting from a blackberry
also that's a ps4 useragent he's got
e: dang it doesn't recognise this useragent
[editline]17th May 2016[/editline]
how about n9
there's quite a few twitter accounts I follow due to the fact that they post creative and fun content like short stories and poems within the character limit. I wouldn't like to see the limit increased much more although the link ignoring is good.
Good, I hate it at work trying to post an image and a link to an offer on our twitter, always have to cut down the message.
[QUOTE=butre;50334572]There's not much meaningful information i could fit in 140 characters or less, if they would just bump it up to maybe 500 characters I might be able to use the service. Youtube used to have a max character count of something like 600 and I can't even begin to tell you how many times I had to restructure my whole post, removing double spaces between sentences, scouring the thesaurus to find shorter synonyms, etc. And it drives me nuts to have to bastardize my perfectly good post.
For reference, that fairly short paragraph was 487 characters. I'd not even be able to fit the first sentence in a twitter post.[/QUOTE]
Don't you then understand that Twitter is simply not the service you're looking for?
You can only cater to certain demographics so much.
[QUOTE=butre;50334572]There's not much meaningful information i could fit in 140 characters or less, if they would just bump it up to maybe 500 characters I might be able to use the service. Youtube used to have a max character count of something like 600 and I can't even begin to tell you how many times I had to restructure my whole post, removing double spaces between sentences, scouring the thesaurus to find shorter synonyms, etc. And it drives me nuts to have to bastardize my perfectly good post.
For reference, that fairly short paragraph was 487 characters. I'd not even be able to fit the first sentence in a twitter post.[/QUOTE]
First question. Why would you use double spaces between sentences in the first place?
Second question. Why is using the thesaurus and learning to use a language well, bad?
[QUOTE=butre;50334572]There's not much meaningful information i could fit in 140 characters or less, if they would just bump it up to maybe 500 characters I might be able to use the service. Youtube used to have a max character count of something like 600 and I can't even begin to tell you how many times I had to restructure my whole post, removing double spaces between sentences, scouring the thesaurus to find shorter synonyms, etc. And it drives me nuts to have to bastardize my perfectly good post.
For reference, that fairly short paragraph was 487 characters. I'd not even be able to fit the first sentence in a twitter post.[/QUOTE]
If you want to post "meaningful information" get a blog. Twitter is for news headlines and stupid non-sequitur humor
You're fooling yourself if you think a normal dad or mom don't use automated tools to repost stuff and stay relevant to their audience.
Either they're rescheduling using Buffer, Mention, MeetEdgar... the automation is there.
I see it all the time, auto-responders with 'welcome' to new followers, giveaway spam, etc.
Twitter is still a giant spambot in itself and you need to post at least 20 times a day to attract the audience that logs in at different hours of the day.
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