Twitter Inc is building a new feature that will allow users to post tweets as long as 10,000 characters, technology news website Re/code reported on Tuesday.
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Hopefully Twitter’s executive team will intelligently rethink their plan for 10,000 characters with a more reasonable alternative before launching the new feature by the end of the quarter. The product could launch as early as March, according to sources, but Dorsey didn’t acknowledge a launch date in his post. Testing is likely over the coming months. “Text that could be searched”. Twitter also recently added a “while you were away” feature, which curates tweets it thinks the user is most interested in so that people can catch up if they haven’t logged in for a few hours. However, clicking on the tweets will then expand them to reveal more content. The same reason a social-media platform does anything, it needs money, and to make money, it’s trying to keep your eyeballs on Twitter.
Re/code reports that a Twitter team is working on a project called “Beyond 140”, that would allow Twitter users to share their thoughts well beyond 140 characters. On the flip side, its original 140-character limit was put in place to ensure Tweets could fit into a 160-character text message, which sustained the platform during the pre-smartphone days of 2006. Text that could be highlighted.
Another Twitter user suggested, “it’s not the size of your tweet, it’s how you use it”.
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Twitter has not confirmed the specific change, but CEO Jack Dorsey said, appropriately, through his Twitter account Tuesday afternoon that users are already sending strings of Tweets or screenshotting blocks of text to communicate longer messages. As Facebook is racing ahead with increasing penetration in new and newer markets, Twitter is being marginalized with shrinking profit and reduced interest from its users.
