280 characters

Twitter increased their character to limit from 280 character.. interesting!

Probably the biggest change (albeit that they’re only testing) to the platform since the ability to thread tweets.

Jack Dorsey announced:

The reaction has been interesting, as you can imagine. Those for and those against:

Twitter have been calling for an edit button for years (as I have), you know all those typo’s that we noticed after 2 minutes later but that’s a conversation for another day.

I had the opportunity to try it out thanks to a Product Hunt chrome extension. I actually found it difficult to reach 280 characters, it was only in cases where I would naturally do a thread I fitted it all in a tweet.

Example B:

I like it, I don’t believe it will ruin twitter like many people think it will. I don’t believe people will abuse it and won’t tweet as concise as they do already. Back to the reaction though, you don’t often see such investment from the users in a product. It’s as if the users own it, something Jack Dorsey should be proud of.

These are my thoughts on it anyway. Thank you for reading ✌🏽