@aral I think enabling longer tweets kind of breaks Twitter's charm. People do it now, but the experience is intentionally compromised.
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@jschoenwald I think Twitter is doing a very good job of breaking Twitter’s charm already, don’t you think? :) -
@aral Touché. But I think if users can tweet at any length it would get out of control. People could hijack timelines, spammers, etc. -
@jschoenwald Man, next thing you know, they’d be banning third‐party clients! :)
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@aral ...and then they could email the tweet to you. The limit is a good thing.Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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@aral Isn’t this against the very base principle of Twitter of having short messages?Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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@aral I prefer the Twitlonger approach. Be nice if 'overlength' text support was built in gracefully.Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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