After testing the new 280-character limit in September, the platform just announced that they are now rolling out this feature to all users. As seen on Twitter, there are probably more people complaining than being excited about this new feature.
Most people are concerned about their feed getting much longer, since people are maxing out the new character limit, even if it’s not necessary.
Might I just remind EVERYONE that just because you now have #280characters you don't need to USE them all EVERYTIME.
Also I don't like the circle filling give me back my number count @Twitter— MazDOz (@OzmaLionheart) November 8, 2017
They say that this would change what Twitter is and its purpose of creating short notes that get to the point quickly.
I'm sure #280characters will be handy on occasion, but 1 of the things I like about @twitter is that it's punchy & gets to the point ! https://t.co/empV4F4Eic
— Theo Paphitis (@TheoPaphitis) November 8, 2017
It would also make the quick skimming through several tweets much more time-consuming.
As a skim reader I’m not sure I’m loving the new #280characters, I literally have twice as much info for my brain to compute!
— Social Revolution (@RachelMcelroySR) November 8, 2017
Proponents of the new feature are happy about having more space to express their thoughts better than before.
I am sure all lawyers share my relief that @Twitter has now expanded to #280characters. It was always a formidable challenge for us: (a) to express ourselves with sufficient clarity, precision and certainty, whilst (b) keeping our tweets within the limit on the number of charact
— Jonathan Jones (@PermSecGLD) November 8, 2017
Weird abbreviations have also been a problem that came along with the previous limit which they can now get rid of.
This #280characters is good for those of us who tweet in full sentences without abbreviations. Thank you, T👐@twitter. 👏👏
— ❤ Mrs. Hanise 💕 (@MatselisoNyane_) November 8, 2017
I personally feel that the new 280-character limit offers many more opportunities, considering that with the previous limit you often ran out of characters. Sometimes you would have needed just a couple more words to express yourself properly.
#280characters YES! i'm glad this has finally happened. Sometimes you just needed to write a little bit more and you never ever really had the space to do so, so this update makes me feel like finally we'll be able to express ourselves, and I personally I believe the 280 is enoug
— Noel Clarke (@NoelClarke) November 7, 2017
I’m very certain that, as soon as everybody gets used to the new limit, they will stop maxing out their tweets at any cost.
Nice job showing both sides of the 280 characters debate! Being a big Twitter fan, I personally don’t like having 280 characters on Twitter. I think it takes away the true purpose of Twitter. Interesting topic!
This is such a good topic for this post. I’m a little bummed that I didn’t think of it myself. I personally am not a fan of the addition of more characters. I love Twitter because I am able to just take a quick glance and have an understanding of what’s going on. Seeing a bunch of words now in a small space now just bothers me.
I think this was a great post, as there was obviously some controversy around 140 vs. 280 character limit. The tweets you chose show the many different things that people were saying around this topic. I also think its great that you chose tweets from both verified users, as well as “normal” Twitter users.
Personally, I dislike Twitter’s decision to allow 280 character tweets. I use Twitter to quickly scroll through for succinct news updates and opinions. I understand Twitter’s intentions, but I hope they decide to eliminate 280 character tweets in its entirety.
I personally don’t enjoy the increase in characters. I think the whole point of Twitter is to be concise and to the point and its great practice for careers in the real world. Twitter forces people to pick their words carefully and really think about what they’re trying to say–and I believe that is very important.
This is actually so interesting! I hadn’t really been paying attention to how people were reacting to the new character limit and I have to say I’m surprised the majority of people don’t like it. I wasn’t big on Twitter before NHsmc so I never really got attached or used to 140, but I now I can see why a lot of people aren’t really a fan of twice as much.