snowyshards t1_iy56tov wrote on November 28, 2022 at 8:55 PM

Reply to comment by The_Darkprofit in Elon Musk says extending Twitter's character limit from 280 to 1,000 characters is on his to-do list by morenewsat11

Nah, that's a good thing, but its probably not an Elon idea because previous workers on Twitter already confirmed that solving the problem of character limit was already in the works, Elon just wanted to steal the credit.

The character limit was never a good thing, in fact it used to be worse when posting pictures on tweets would also count as words and the limit was 120 characters I believe.

Seriously, it was never a good thing that one of the most influential means of communication with the literal world leaders on it has a character limit. Twitter user had to make up corny words like oomfie and shit like that in hopes to communicate and almost everyone has to word their tweets in way to use as little words as possible but simultaneously make it so nobody takes their wording the wrong way (this is why the waffle and pancakes meme exist).

ShadyKnucks t1_iy5gh9t wrote on November 28, 2022 at 9:59 PM

It’s a platform meant for concise, brief communications. If you want to write a paragraph +, go on Facebook, Reddit, or Medium.

snowyshards t1_iy5uwdo wrote on November 28, 2022 at 11:42 PM

That was the original intention until it become the most influentical social media app where all politics take place.

Ultimatums are not going to cut it, I have seen many times people getting cancelled because they worded out badly something important they wanted to say while trying to keep it under 280 characters.

Twitter was being used for things it was never meant for and that become irs main audience, something about the character limit had to be made

And this is no me defending Elon, Twitter's previous staff before his takeover was already considering something like this.

tuxzilla t1_iy7kvqu wrote on November 29, 2022 at 9:47 AM

All the limit does is make people post pictures with a paragraph of text that you have to click on to be able to enlarge and read or post your paragraph on https://www.twitlonger.com/ and post a link to it.