Edit has 4 characters. Can we start there instead?
This is a small change, but a big move for us. 140 was an arbitrary choice based on the 160 character SMS limit. Proud of how thoughtful the team has been in solving a real problem people have when trying to tweet. And at the same time maintaining our brevity, speed, and essence!https://twitter.com/twitter/status/912783930431905797 …
Can’t fit your Tweet into 140 characters? 
We’re trying something new with a small group, and increasing the character limit to 280! Excited about the possibilities? Read our blog to find out how it all adds up. 
https://cards.twitter.com/cards/gsby/4ubsj …
We’re trying something new with a small group, and increasing the character limit to 280! Excited about the possibilities? Read our blog to find out how it all adds up.
https://cards.twitter.com/cards/gsby/4ubsj …-
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editing tweets is easily exploitable so let's never start there
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what if we're only allowed to edit 4 characters?
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Still opportunity for shenanigans there
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you'd have to be pretty creative tho
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Hate and love are both 4 characters
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and you'd only need to edit 3!
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Why don't we have a time limit on editing? Can't edit after 1 minute, or show the previous edits like Facebook?
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I will reserve my full response until I get 280 characters but this is a slap in the face to everyone harmed by your lax governance
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Your platform has been co-opted and manipulated, turned into a megaphone for hate and propaganda.
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Your response? Remove the last filter forcing careful selection of words. This makes Twitter boring without making room for real thought.
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And yet again, another surface-level tweak that fails to deal with the rot inside this community.
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You have failed signally in your responsibilities to your users, investors, and frankly to all of humanity. Thanks, Jack.
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@jack, the response quality filter is working great. All these folks arguing with me and not one's in my notifications -
It's funny that it took you 6 tweets to complain about the char limit increasing
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A huge change. It will significantly effect how people view the conciseness of their feed. Prefer doing away w/ 22 characters for a link.
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Exempting Hashtags and URLs from the limit would be phenomenal, even though it would probably break the network.
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Right? Or how about (picking random number) 3 "free" hashtags, listed like tagged photos are, the rest count under your limit?
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