I’m frankly surprised at all the outrage over Twitter’s trial introduction, for a few, select users, of 280 character tweets. It seems to have angered people – hailing the death of Twitter, or claiming brands and influencers will fill the new character limit up with disclaimers.
Surely after a couple of tedious months of everyone trying really long Tweets, it’ll die down anyway. Look at Facebook. Their character limit for a post is 63,206. Yet my feed is primarily “isn’t my baby/husband/ferret cute #blessed.” or “