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A matter of characters: a change comes to Twitter

September 29, 2017
Written by HAVAS:: Just
Categories: Just::, Social Media, Thoughts

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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 “

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