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Twitter Finally Puts Limits To Characters |
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About the organization Twitter:
Type: Business
Sub-Types: Website, Text Hosting Agent, Picture Hosting Agent, Video Hosting Agent, Social Networking Agent, Blogging, Microblogging |
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Notable Organizations: Twitter, Techcrunch
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| #Beyond140 is coming to fruition with the removal of one of the most annoying laws of Twitter. Some iOS users are now part of a test group that no longer sees a recipients’ usernames appear or count against the 140 character limit when they post replies. This leaves more room for actual discussion.
It also prevents the dreaded “Twitter Canoe”, where more and more users join a reply thread until there’s hardly any characters left to use and the conversation breaks down.
A Twitter spokesperson confirms to TechCrunch that this is a test appearing to a subset of users, referring to a Twitter Help article saying it would eventually start showing these to users. Now the tests are live with actual users, and it will roll out to everyone eventually in some form, though Twitter wouldn’t say when.
Twitter announced in May that the change would eventually come through. It’s already implemented some of the other #Beyond140 updates, including the ability to retweet yourself and media attachments like photos not counting against the character limit. |
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