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Sick of 280-character tweets already? Here’s how to go back

sudshr47 November 8, 2017

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Twitter’s maximum tweet length has finally been raised to 280 characters. For some users, this is super exciting. For others, it’s the worst thing ever to hit the Internet. 

If you’re in the latter category, you’re in luck. Our friends over at Slate have developed a new Chrome extension called “140” that will help you blissfully ignore the new Twitter for as long as you’d like. 

The extension will cut every tweet on your feed down to 140 characters, and will restrict your tweets to the old limit as well. You can download it straight from the Chrome Web Store.  Read more…

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Everyone can just go home now because British police have won at 280-character tweets

sudshr47 November 8, 2017

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So yesterday Twitter doubled the character limit, upgrading it to 280 and causing a collective nervous breakdown, hot takes, anger, and daring experiments.

Hate it or love it, the feature has certainly its silver linings. And British people, with their deadpan humour, know how to make the best of it.

This, for example, is how Sussex Police decided to use its #280characters:

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— Sussex Police (@sussex_police) November 8, 2017 Read more…

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Chrissy Teigen swears she’ll never use Twitter’s new 280-character limit

sudshr47 November 8, 2017

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Twitter just doubled its upper character limit, and not everyone’s psyched. 

Especially hardcore tweeter Chrissy Teigen, who posted a “fight song” refusal to ever use, favorite, or retweet any 280-character tweets.

The American model, TV host and cookbook author tweeted this to her 8.3 million followers on Tuesday:

I will NEVER use 280 characters nor will I favorite or retweet a tweet with them. THIS IS MY FIGHT SONG

— christine teigen (@chrissyteigen) November 8, 2017

Them’s fightin’ words alright—words we’re not 100 percent sure she’ll stick to, but hey, we like the enthusiasm. Read more…

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Welp, Trump has embraced Twitter’s new 280-character limit

sudshr47 November 8, 2017

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President Donald Trump took advantage of Twitter’s expanded character count on Tuesday — but the excess words didn’t really add much.

He used 216 characters to let everyone know he was about to make a speech in South Korea and then travel to China. Riveting stuff.

Getting ready to make a major speech to the National Assembly here in South Korea, then will be headed to China where I very much look forward to meeting with President Xi who is just off his great political victory.

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) November 8, 2017

But the old 140-character Twitter would’ve worked just fine to get his pretty boring point across. Here’s what his tweet should’ve looked like: Read more…

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What 280 characters means for Twitter’s future

sudshr47 November 8, 2017

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At its core, the internet as we know it exists in a state of permanent contradiction where everything both simultaneously lasts forever and is constantly in flux. 

It’s perhaps fitting then that Twitter, the social media service most identified with brevity, has doubled the upper character limit its users can tweet, while at the same time insisting the fundamental change in no way alters its essence.

But can Twitter thrive in this liminal state of concise and verbose, and what does the change mean for a platform that struggles to add real users at the same time it fails to identify and delete fake ones?  Read more…

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16 best uses of 280 characters on Twitter

sudshr47 November 8, 2017

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After weeks of testing, Twitter rolled out a major update to its platform, doubling each tweet’s character count from 140 to 280. 

Exhilarating, right? 

While the update may seem small to some, it is a pretty drastic change that will affect how users interact on the app. Though the feature is still new, here are the best ways people have used the increased character limit so far. 

1. Grace the internet with more Smash Mouth

this is a test:

Somebody once told me the world is gonna roll me
I ain’t the sharpest tool in the shed
She was looking kind of dumb with her finger and her thumb
In the shape of an “L” on her forehead
Well the years start coming and they don’t stop coming
Fed to the rules and I

— Johnny Simon (@johnnysimon) November 7, 2017 Read more…

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Twitter officially expands its character count to 280 starting today

sudshr47 November 7, 2017

 Twitter’s expansion to 280 characters is rolling out publicly today to all users in supported languages, including English. The company had first announced the controversial plan to move beyond its traditional 140 characters back in September, noting at the time how a longer character count allowed users to express more of their thoughts without running out of room to tweet. The… Read More

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