Twitter Opts to keep one hundred forty-persona restrict in place – For Now at the least

Mark this down as one much less explanation for uproar amongst Twitter customers. In an interview on The today exhibit this morning, Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey demonstrated that the one hundred forty-character restrict for tweets will remain unchanged. When requested immediately about the potential for the one hundred forty-character restrict being lifted, Dorsey stated:

“it is staying. it is a excellent constraint for us. It lets in for ‘of-the-moment’ brevity.”

Dorsey referred to that whereas they need to trade a variety of issues as part of their ongoing efforts to make Twitter higher, the one hundred forty persona limit would not be considered one of them. at the least for now.

This comes after Dorsey himself fuelled speculation of a possible lifting of the personality limit with this tweet back in January.

This style of tweet is something that’s been on the rise, individuals posting long snippets of text within an image attached to a tweet, successfully hacking the one hundred forty persona restrict. given that customers are already doing this, and that Twitter would make the most of having the ability to actually search and utilize the full data of these longer missives, the hypothesis was that Twitter would appear to increase tweets in the identical way they’d already achieved with Direct Messages (of which the boundaries were boosted to 10,000 characters again in August).

but, after all, as with all proposed change on Twitter, the platform’s passionate user base had opinions.  

folks were none too happy with the suggestion that tweets might be prolonged – imagine lengthy, 2,000+ word tweets clogging up your timeline, being flooded with large promotional messages from spammers, the dimensions of which might successfully render the platform needless. experiences steered that the speculation being discussed didn’t exactly in shape these concerns – longer tweets have been more likely to look something like this (under), with an approach to ‘learn more’ on the end:

but regardless, users fired off their complaints, their concerns, their ideas for the way to make Twitter better – of which Dorsey and Co may certainly by no means be briefly supply.

So no want for a brand new #RIPTwitter movement, no need to issue a new set of issues for Twitter to prioritize as a substitute of longer tweets (an edit choice?) – Dorsey says the whole thing’s all excellent. For now.

however for many who are aching to share their issues/concepts/ideas, don’t worry. the following Twitter replace controversy isn’t too some distance away.

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