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Rome – Twitter could decide to abandon its characteristic 140-character limit, extending it to a maximum of 10 thousand jokes.

According to rumors, the platform would launch already by the end of the first quarter financial the new feature to enable its users to post tweets long up to 10 thousand characters, that is the same length as already adopted for direct messages: a novelty in addition to those introduced in recent months, which focus in particular on his vocation to live and represent an attempt to Twitter to defend its position in the field of social networks and monetize its audience.

For the moment it is just speculation, however, have been enough to raise the criticism of (alleged) choice: while it may appear as an update that supports the will of the communication of its users, on the other hand seems to undermine what for some is the key feature of the platform, the brevity.

> To strengthen the hypothesis was a twittering CEO Jack Dorsey: while emphasizing the appreciation of the peculiar limit says that the will of Twitter is to be an effective means of communication and that, as demonstrate some statistics that indicate more participation (retweet and like) for tweets containing such images, this would be even more giving the ability to send longer messages. Its key feature, therefore, would not be the brevity but the nature of means of communication.

In this regard, Dorsey said he had observed that its platform is used by users, and have discovered that these often use screenshots texts or redirects to external pages, thus leveraging the ability to send images to overcome the limitations of character set.
why Dorsey asked whether it is better that instead of pictures there are real texts, in such as waterways and indexable and therefore searchable by keywords through internal research platform.

In addition to what appears important as Dorsey has spoken: writing, Dorsey sent a chirping containing the screenshots a message that is well over 140 characters.

In addition to the use that can make users of new messages extended, this may be an additional means to engage advertisers and companies in the business of tecnofringuello both because it would bypass the caution users to click on links in tweets is because it would allow to increase the time spent on the platform, not redirecting users to its exterior to read certain content.

This, assuming that will not be realized the most pessimistic views on the transformation: that those who see the move by Twitter abdication of its role based on its brevity, through which manages to stand out among the wide range of social media.

Claudio Tamburrino