Friday, March 18, 2016

Jack Dorsey: “Twitter is 140 characters” – The Republic

The tweets on Twitter will remain 140 characters. After speculation in recent months about the possibility that they just stretched to 10 thousand characters, is the CEO Jack Dorsey in person to refute: the limit “will remain. It is a good bond, and to retain the brevity of the moment “, he said speaking on the Today Show Friday the NBC.

in January, had spread rumors that the microblogging site would give more space to individual tweets, which would have led to up to 10 thousand characters, while the limit of 140 characters has been removed from Twitter for private messages last August. And the ability to extend the amount of the text had been seen as a strategy to renew itself and attack the crisis.

Under the guidance of Dorsey, co-founder of the company who returned as CEO in October, the month Twitter is in fact experimenting with different ways to make the site more eye-catching, to attract new users. Beginning with the function ‘Moments’, introduced in recent months, and the addition of the surveys to the tweets, the “buy” button and the icon replacing the star icon to indicate a preferred tweet with shaped icon heart called “like” in Facebook style. The idea of ​​extending the tweets, however, had aroused some criticism from users.

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