Wednesday, September 30, 2015

The tweetlimiet disappears, the character of Twitter as well? – Nrc.nl

The American tech blogs know – almost – certain: social network Twitter deletes its current limit of 140 characters. Twitter (316 million users) hopes to be as accessible to the general public, like its main competitor Facebook (1.4 million users).
You do not log in on Twitter to make friends or follow your family, but to watch along with the new flow of communication professionals. This target group is limited; the accretion of ordinary Twitterers falters. To lure new interested people, Twitter is gradually working to make the Web service accessible. The strict chronological order of tweets has been released for “important” messages out to inform and last month removed the 140-character limit on direct messages (private messages between users). According to tech blogs and recode The Information disappears limit of 140 characters in regular tweets.
This restriction dates from the time tweets were sent by text message. Long held Twitter (founded in 2006) insists that you also deep in Africa or the Middle East via a simple telephone tweets should be able to read – Twitter saw himself as the ultimate democratic tool. Meanwhile also penetrated the smartphone in those regions. Moreover changed Twitter timeline has also been enriched with photos, videos and lots of ads

The tweetlimiet 140 characters determines a large part of the character and the speed of Twitter.. It forces Twitterers pointed to formulate. But many Twitter users find 140 characters too tight: they begin to send pictures of long pieces of text around
The current interim CEO, Jack Dorsey, one of the founders, would support dropping the tweetlimiet.. He would also like to remain as CEO, reports recode. Dorsey followed Dick Costolo, who was killed because Twitter did not increase the number of users

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