The microblogging platform Twitter was launched 10 years ago, exactly on 21 March 2006. Since then the service has changed considerably, has collected more than 300 million active users, and the company entered the stock exchange. However, one thing has always remained the same and it seems that will remain unchanged for a long time, despite rumors the last hour and the growing need to maximize profits. We are talking about the 140-character limit with regard to post on the service.
To celebrate the tenth anniversary Twitter has published a small video memorial for a little over two minutes in the official channel of the social networks in which he thanks all users around the world. Now implicitly it emphasizes what are the characteristics that make it unique service: Twitter is told as a microblogging platform-specific information fast which gives the best of himself for the dissemination of breaking news or awareness on certain issues.
But not only do not miss the more playful part dedicated to the spread of viral video or GIF ironic, elements that in recent years have occupied a good part of the post of service users flow. Very interesting that the thank you note which reads the video is merged in a tweet to 140 characters, which still exists today, but the limit of which the company considers to be the elimination time. He had spoken the same Jack Dorsey in September, other sources confirmed after a few months.
In a new interview on The Today Show last Friday the company's CEO spoke of both arguments: the tenth anniversary and the limit of 140 characters. The same has confirmed that the service will maintain the limit, which appeared to deny categorically what has been said by the Dorsey on the possibility to expand the number of characters per post to 10,000. It is clear that the company does not want to misrepresent Twitter depriving feature that actually makes it different from other social web.
The phrase used by the CEO of the company leaves no room for doubt: "[The limit of 140 characters] remains. It is a bond that has meaning for us. It gives the idea of instantaneity of the moment." But can we really trust? Dorsey spoke to expand the limit only a few months ago, and just recently declared that the timeline would not have suffered alteration in the way posts were ordered. A few days later, Twitter announced a change in the algorithm of the content on the service management.
Only time will therefore give us an answer, but at the moment the official position is that on Twitter the limit of 140 characters remain.
To celebrate the tenth anniversary Twitter has published a small video memorial for a little over two minutes in the official channel of the social networks in which he thanks all users around the world. Now implicitly it emphasizes what are the characteristics that make it unique service: Twitter is told as a microblogging platform-specific information fast which gives the best of himself for the dissemination of breaking news or awareness on certain issues.
But not only do not miss the more playful part dedicated to the spread of viral video or GIF ironic, elements that in recent years have occupied a good part of the post of service users flow. Very interesting that the thank you note which reads the video is merged in a tweet to 140 characters, which still exists today, but the limit of which the company considers to be the elimination time. He had spoken the same Jack Dorsey in September, other sources confirmed after a few months.
In a new interview on The Today Show last Friday the company's CEO spoke of both arguments: the tenth anniversary and the limit of 140 characters. The same has confirmed that the service will maintain the limit, which appeared to deny categorically what has been said by the Dorsey on the possibility to expand the number of characters per post to 10,000. It is clear that the company does not want to misrepresent Twitter depriving feature that actually makes it different from other social web.
The phrase used by the CEO of the company leaves no room for doubt: "[The limit of 140 characters] remains. It is a bond that has meaning for us. It gives the idea of instantaneity of the moment." But can we really trust? Dorsey spoke to expand the limit only a few months ago, and just recently declared that the timeline would not have suffered alteration in the way posts were ordered. A few days later, Twitter announced a change in the algorithm of the content on the service management.
Only time will therefore give us an answer, but at the moment the official position is that on Twitter the limit of 140 characters remain.
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