Word has it Twitter will soon increase its character limit from 140 to 10,000, which has many long-time Tweeters/Twits/Twitterers (or whatever) up in arms. My initial reaction is, "Well, that's interesting. Let's see how this plays out..." That's how I've learned to be when it comes to most big changes. While I can understand those who both do and don't initially like the move, what's really the point of lauding or criticizing it until we actually see it go into effect?
It took me a while to get into Twitter. I prefer to not have my thoughts and posts condensed, which is why I favored blogging, as well as Tumblr and Facebook, to Twitter initially. I've also never got into the abbreviation craze, because it provides me with both a migraine and stomach troubles to even think about typing something along the lines of, "Luv u 2." However, after giving Twitter a second chance, I realized it could be a useful platform for business purposes - to help spread word about my work, through that garner more attention and recognition, and lead to more sales in the process. I've learned to better condense my thoughts since rejoining the site, and without resorting to abbreviations. However, there are times when I wish I had a few more characters with which to work in order to better get my point across (including links and hashtags).
In other words, I could see both the up and downsides to this coming change on Twitter. While I've gotten semi-used to communicating with others by limiting my thoughts to 140 characters per post, I'd be lying if I said I didn't sometimes wish that limit was expanded, not to mention I get a little tired of the 5-6 consecutive tweets one is forced to post in place of the single tweet he or she would have ordinarily used had the character limit been raised. So let's not blow things out of proportion just yet. Let's await the change to take effect and not cast judgment before that time. Twitter's character limitation may make the site unique, but does that uniqueness limit users in other ways outside of just the number of characters which may be used?
http://recode.net/2016/01/05/twitter-considering-10000-character-limit-for-tweets/
It took me a while to get into Twitter. I prefer to not have my thoughts and posts condensed, which is why I favored blogging, as well as Tumblr and Facebook, to Twitter initially. I've also never got into the abbreviation craze, because it provides me with both a migraine and stomach troubles to even think about typing something along the lines of, "Luv u 2." However, after giving Twitter a second chance, I realized it could be a useful platform for business purposes - to help spread word about my work, through that garner more attention and recognition, and lead to more sales in the process. I've learned to better condense my thoughts since rejoining the site, and without resorting to abbreviations. However, there are times when I wish I had a few more characters with which to work in order to better get my point across (including links and hashtags).
In other words, I could see both the up and downsides to this coming change on Twitter. While I've gotten semi-used to communicating with others by limiting my thoughts to 140 characters per post, I'd be lying if I said I didn't sometimes wish that limit was expanded, not to mention I get a little tired of the 5-6 consecutive tweets one is forced to post in place of the single tweet he or she would have ordinarily used had the character limit been raised. So let's not blow things out of proportion just yet. Let's await the change to take effect and not cast judgment before that time. Twitter's character limitation may make the site unique, but does that uniqueness limit users in other ways outside of just the number of characters which may be used?
http://recode.net/2016/01/05/twitter-considering-10000-character-limit-for-tweets/
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