A couple of weeks into Twitter’s #280characters experiment, a few thoughts. I’m still on 140 chars so this has to be a classic thread. (1/8)
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Idea some languages need more characters than others (
@jack’s justification for 280) is true. But that doesn’t justify doubling to 280 (2/8)1 reply 0 retweets 1 likeShow this thread -
but more up to something like 190 chars for German. No language, translated, is double the length of English. (3/8)
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Meanwhile in English 280 char tweets are too dense to scan, and are harder, slower to read than 2 x 140 char tweets. (4/8)
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The Twitter thread has emerged as the way to tell longer stories on Twitter. One 140 char tweet is enough for quick comment. (5/8)
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Twitter’s roll out of 280 has been bewildering, typical of the firm. I’ve no idea how was chosen who gets it & not, who gets it next. (6/8)
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Replying to @jonworth
That's on purpose https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Randomized_controlled_trial …
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Replying to @thijsniks
Except they explicitly said it wasn’t random. They said “specially selected” and a chunk were verified accounts. But no clear rationale.
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Pretty sure this means randomized, which is the industry standard for software services https://blog.twitter.com/official/en_us/topics/product/2017/Giving-you-more-characters-to-express-yourself.html …pic.twitter.com/MaqpVqXgJ9
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Replying to @thijsniks
Ok. What would it take to get them to reverse it I wonder, say it doesn’t work…?
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Replying to @jonworth
I would guess a significant drop in tweets or timeline views per user per week
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