200 Character Tweets
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Staten Island, NY Posted: 6/4/2015 1:00:00 AM
Isn't it time they expanded the 140 character limit on Twitter... even a little?
When Twitter was first developed, their plan was to create a SMS based chat service, which had a 160 character limit. So they reserved 20 characters so they could use it to track senders, but they eventually realized more people wanted to use their web version so they ditched their plans for SMS. Even after the switch, they continued to limit Tweets to 140 characters.
One of the reasons they stuck to the 140 character limit was the way it forces people to truly boil their messages down to their essence. The trouble is, when you factor in the URLs, images and hashtags, the majority of Tweets these days look like some kind of cryptographic code, full of abbreviations, and poor grammar.
Another side effect of the limit is that a lot of people post messages that look so out of context that they get into quite a bit of trouble, leaving the readers wondering what they meant when they wrote it.
I still think Twitter should continue to be the place for short posts, but 140 is a tad short. Why not expand it to about 200. It's still short, but it gives people the ability to write full sentences. People already cheat the limit by posting a picture or video that can contain a much longer message, so why not just raise the limit a bit?
Joe Crescenzi, Founder
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