Twitter doubles character limit to 280

Good, now less people will try and cram as much as possible into 140 characters, and totally butcher the message they are trying to convey and sound offensive or racist and ruin their lives.
 
Slootvreter said:
Good, now less people will try and cram as much as possible into 140 characters, and totally butcher the message they are trying to convey and sound offensive or racist and ruin their lives.
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People are offensive and racist because of a lack of character, not because they lack characters.
 
abzo said:
"No no no, I didn't mean to call them the K-word. I just didn't have enough space left to type 'these filthy black people'"
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One doesn't even have to make a racist statement for it to be perceived as grossly racist.
 
Hardly see the point to twitter any more. And why was the character limit 140 when sms is 160?
 
Swa said:
Hardly see the point to twitter any more. And why was the character limit 140 when sms is 160?
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Twenty characters were reserved for the Twitter ID.
 
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bwana said:
Twenty characters were reserved for the Twitter ID.
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Ok I see, but it still seems like something they didn't thought out properly since the whole selling thing was the sms message yet I can fit in 20 characters more in an sms. So a big fail there.
 
Swa said:
Ok I see, but it still seems like something they didn't thought out properly since the whole selling thing was the sms message yet I can fit in 20 characters more in an sms. So a big fail there.
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What I'm saying is twitter themselves reserved those extra 20 characters for the username - they didn't want smses being split inadvertently.

Anyway... I'm pleased. 99% of my tweets originate from my Instagram account which almost always get awkwardly truncated.
 
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I don't care much for the character limit increase, although I suppose it will come in handy from time to time. What I'd much rather have is the ability to edit Tweets for 30 seconds or some other brief time period after Tweeting them, and for 4-character usernames to return. I don't understand why the f**k we can't choose a 4-character username if it's available, especially considering it used to be allowed.
 
bwana said:
What I'm saying is twitter themselves reserved those extra 20 characters for the username - they didn't want smses being split inadvertently.

Anyway... I'm pleased. 99% of my tweets originate from my Instagram account which almost always get awkwardly truncated.
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I know what you're saying but it makes no sense as it's not an sms that can be split. But since they marketed it with the sms catchphrase it should have been the size of an sms and not shorter.
 
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