Twitter to allow 10,000-character tweets as it prepares to abandon famous limit
Twitter is reportedly planning to abandon its famous 140-character limit and allow tweets up to 10,000 characters long in a major break from the origins of the service.
The proposed ###-times increase in the limit, allowing tweets of roughly ### words in length, would be the latest departure from the origins of Twitter since the social network's co-founder Jack Dorsey returned as chief executive last year.
The article then quotes a tweet from an unimpressed member of the public:
the only time I want to use 10,000 characters on Twitter is to say no to this 5,000 timesObvious questions involve working out what is hidden by the ### symbols.
What is wrong with the tweet quoted here? (If you want to say nonononononononononononono... then that is fine, but if you actually want to say "no no no no ..." then you need spaces too so you could write it 3,333 times.)
Here is the original version from the Telegraph:
Here is the original version from the Telegraph:
The proposed 71-times increase in the limit, allowing tweets of roughly 2,000 words in length,Here is the BBC News version:
If Twitter allowed tweets of up to 10,000 characters, it could produce 1,700-word messages, based on the size of Dorsey's extended post.Why are they different?
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