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Twitter is testing a big change: Doubling the length of tweets from 140 to 280 characters

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    Kent Sharkey
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    Twitter’s iconic 140-character limit for tweets may be on the way out.

    This changes EVERYTHING!

    Oh, my life will now be complete. Or something. FSM knows I just lives for the Twitter. #really_people #who_cares_about_your_lunch #get_on_with_your_life

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      Twitter’s iconic 140-character limit for tweets may be on the way out.

      This changes EVERYTHING!

      Oh, my life will now be complete. Or something. FSM knows I just lives for the Twitter. #really_people #who_cares_about_your_lunch #get_on_with_your_life

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      j snooze
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      First Microsoft changes the command window colors and now this? Tech breakthroughs are moving at the speed of light here. When my grandkids are on their devices I'll be bringing up the "Back in my day we were limited to 140 characters while walking up hill both ways." I'll know we've finally arrived when they come out with a plastic bag emoji to pick up after the poo emoji.

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        Twitter’s iconic 140-character limit for tweets may be on the way out.

        This changes EVERYTHING!

        Oh, my life will now be complete. Or something. FSM knows I just lives for the Twitter. #really_people #who_cares_about_your_lunch #get_on_with_your_life

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        Marc Clifton
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        Oh great. Trump's rants will be longer. Maybe he can be still be limited to 140 chars. Better yet, 0 chars. Sorry for SB-y post.

        Latest Article - Class-less Coding - Minimalist C# and Why F# and Function Programming Has Some Advantages Learning to code with python is like learning to swim with those little arm floaties. It gives you undeserved confidence and will eventually drown you. - DangerBunny Artificial intelligence is the only remedy for natural stupidity. - CDP1802

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          Oh great. Trump's rants will be longer. Maybe he can be still be limited to 140 chars. Better yet, 0 chars. Sorry for SB-y post.

          Latest Article - Class-less Coding - Minimalist C# and Why F# and Function Programming Has Some Advantages Learning to code with python is like learning to swim with those little arm floaties. It gives you undeserved confidence and will eventually drown you. - DangerBunny Artificial intelligence is the only remedy for natural stupidity. - CDP1802

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          RTek23
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          Marc, anyone, how do you give something an upvote (or 10).

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            Oh great. Trump's rants will be longer. Maybe he can be still be limited to 140 chars. Better yet, 0 chars. Sorry for SB-y post.

            Latest Article - Class-less Coding - Minimalist C# and Why F# and Function Programming Has Some Advantages Learning to code with python is like learning to swim with those little arm floaties. It gives you undeserved confidence and will eventually drown you. - DangerBunny Artificial intelligence is the only remedy for natural stupidity. - CDP1802

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            Joe Woodbury
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            How about a random number from 0 to 16. And then a random timeout between tweets from our hour to one year.

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              Marc, anyone, how do you give something an upvote (or 10).

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              Peter_in_2780
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              Simples. Hover over the message, you should see a green up-triangle to the left. Click!

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                First Microsoft changes the command window colors and now this? Tech breakthroughs are moving at the speed of light here. When my grandkids are on their devices I'll be bringing up the "Back in my day we were limited to 140 characters while walking up hill both ways." I'll know we've finally arrived when they come out with a plastic bag emoji to pick up after the poo emoji.

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                Lost User
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                j snooze wrote:

                a plastic bag emoji to pick up after the poo emoji

                You should copyright that.. that does sound very, very possible.. :cool:

                Now is it bad enough that you let somebody else kick your butts without you trying to do it to each other? Now if we're all talking about the same man, and I think we are... it appears he's got a rather growing collection of our bikes.

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                • K Kent Sharkey

                  re/code[^]:

                  Twitter’s iconic 140-character limit for tweets may be on the way out.

                  This changes EVERYTHING!

                  Oh, my life will now be complete. Or something. FSM knows I just lives for the Twitter. #really_people #who_cares_about_your_lunch #get_on_with_your_life

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                  PeejayAdams
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                  Isn't the whole point of Twitter - assuming that it has one - that it's custom made for people whose attention spans fizzle out somewhere round the 140 character mark? Any attempt to lengthen that will just push "#TLDR" to the top of the trending #Twit-tag list.

                  98.4% of statistics are made up on the spot.

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                    First Microsoft changes the command window colors and now this? Tech breakthroughs are moving at the speed of light here. When my grandkids are on their devices I'll be bringing up the "Back in my day we were limited to 140 characters while walking up hill both ways." I'll know we've finally arrived when they come out with a plastic bag emoji to pick up after the poo emoji.

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                    Daniel Pfeffer
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                    New Twitter! Now, twice as twitty!

                    If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time - a tremendous whack. --Winston Churchill

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                      re/code[^]:

                      Twitter’s iconic 140-character limit for tweets may be on the way out.

                      This changes EVERYTHING!

                      Oh, my life will now be complete. Or something. FSM knows I just lives for the Twitter. #really_people #who_cares_about_your_lunch #get_on_with_your_life

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                      Dan Neely
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                      This is an absolutely horrible idea. The entire soul of Twitter is in the brevity of expression. Allowing users to write longer 1/many

                      Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, weighing all things in the balance of reason? Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful? --Zachris Topelius Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies. -- Sarah Hoyt

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