Twitter could up character limit soon

[brooklynite]

Source: Politico

WE HEAR … -- TWITTER will up its character limit to 280 characters for everyone in the very near future. D.C. is beginning to buzz about it, as political operatives have caught wind of the change.

Read more: https://www.politico.com/tipsheets/playbook-power-briefing/2017/10/31/trump-wants-tax-bill-through-the-house-by-thanksgiving-howard-fineman-on-what-makes-manafort-tick-twitter-could-up-character-limit-soon-223100

[Eliot Rosewater]

1. I for one wish there was no twitter, for now anyway.

It makes it so easy for trump , bannon and their deplorable followers to bond together in their destruction of the country.

Maybe if Twitter would take one for the home team, voluntarily shut down for a year or so.

[Sunlei]

11. Twitters just an old chatrooms full of lies, spammers, ads. Our Government shouldn't even use it.

[bellmartin]

28. I, for one, believe that OUR Government does not use it.

[msongs]

2. lovely, more lies, rumors, fake news, and russian propaganda with each tweet nt

[Thor_MN]

3. Why is there a character limit at all?

The solution to pollution was never dilution. Crap in small packages is still crap.

[yurbud]

6. It's a medium of communication. You can filter out the crap or go fishing for it

Twitter was a head scratcher for me for years, but it is a way to get a snapshot of other people's views, and you can embed links to articles of any length you like.

Or it Trump's case, you can pad your thoughts with 120 extra characters.

[xor]

7. I don't think Twitter was original intended to be used like that. Was it?

Wasn't the original intention for it to be something where people could "microblog" about the mundane stuff like what they are having for lunch or what concert they are going to?

[yurbud]

19. what things are intended for and what they become can be quite different.

[Thor_MN]

17. I'll pass. It's a total waste of bandwidth IMO.

I'm not interested in what people had for lunch or people repeating who is dating who.

It's an inefficient medium for anything other than the smallest of thoughts, so, perfect for Dolt 45 as he has no thoughts at all.

[ManiacJoe]

20. The 140 character limit is based on the SMS texting limit.

[Thor_MN]

21. Was. As in a decade ago. Twitter hasn't used SMS in a long time.

The 140 character limit is purely artificial at this point.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

4. Twitter threads are the crappiest medium for communicating serious writing

Low attention span theater.

Post an essay somewhere and twitter a link.

[xor]

8. The problem with posting anything longer than a tweet is that people won't read it.

I've been on sites in which anything more than a paragraph gets "too long" or "boooooooooooooring" comments right away. It's hard to engage the average person these days.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

9. Tough. They need to grow up. Leave them in the dust.

We need to stop treating adults like children.

Do not participate in the dumbing-down of America. Call them out for such feeble-mindedness. Slackers.

Set higher standards than one paragraph and expect them.

[xor]

12. Ohhh yeah. I totally try to make them feel bad for it.

I'm not sure it works, though.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

13. Then another way is to say "You're better than that. You can do it. Live up to your capabilities" nt

[Bernardo de La Paz]

10. Good writing starts with a single paragraph that hooks the reader. . . . nt

[sofa king]

16. Hee hee.

I was just about to say that as an author, when I finish the first paragraph, hit return, and move on to the second, I've just written off half of my audience.

Maybe I should go back and look at that first paragraph again!

[sofa king]

15. I'll refer you to George Carlin and the average person.

Now that everyone is on the Internet, the same observation applies to it.

Look at the tools Donald Trump uses in his tweets: deceit, artifice, misdirection, sophistry, hatred, oversimplification, and most importantly, fear. The very tools tyrants have always used to motivate and convince the slowest and least comprehending of us.

Or a still more depressing way to put it is that if half of everyone is leaning stupid and another, smaller proportion of everyone is clever and anti-social, evil will always win as long as the arguments have to be simple. Evil is unbound to truth or logic.

[Thor_MN]

18. The average person has an IQ of 100...

Twitter, IMO, drags that a bit south...

[LanternWaste]

25. Ironically enough, your post was illustrative of a typical twitter post.

Ironically enough, your post was illustrative of a typical twitter post.

(rationalize the distinction lacking a relevant difference below... or simply post a link to the essay)

[Bernardo de La Paz]

26. Have you ever replied to any post of mine except to slam it? I can't think of one.

You could try stopping stalking me.

[spiderpig]

5. Is this another Executive Order?

Oy!

[groundloop]

14. This should help employment a bit....45* will have to hire additional staff to help write his tweets

[Ms. Toad]

22. I've had it for at least 2 weeks, now. n/t

[petronius]

23. Sweet! That means I'll save up to twice as much time

by not reading Twitter!

[maxrandb]

24. Too bad this doesn't address "personal character"

There are a few that obviously don't have the honor, integrity or good character traits to post on Twitler

[awesomerwb1]

27. I've had it for a few weeks now.

Not a power user, don't have a lot of followers. Guess I just got "lucky".

To all of those saying they hate twitter and don't use it. Please learn it, and use it. We will need all the help we can get to counter all the disinformation and fake news in the future.

I personally do as much as I can to promote true tweets and facts to counter both bots and the brainwashed far right loonies.