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People Have Mixed Reactions at the Prospect of 280 Character Limit Tweets

Kiruti Itimu by Kiruti Itimu
September 27, 2017
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Twitter today decided to drop a bombshell by announcing that they are changing one of their well known idiosyncrasies. The 140 character limit has now been expanded to 280 characters as shown by Twitter’s CEO, Jack Dorsey.

This is a small change, but a big move for us. 140 was an arbitrary choice based on the 160 character SMS limit. Proud of how thoughtful the team has been in solving a real problem people have when trying to tweet. And at the same time maintaining our brevity, speed, and essence! https://t.co/TuHj51MsTu

— jack (@jack) September 26, 2017

This move is for sure a major one since for the last 10 years, Twitter users have grown accustomed to the 140 character limit. That brevity has also affected Twitter users in various ways like subconsciously making our thoughts more efficient and has reduced our reading span drastically.

Twitter says that they are testing this change to a small number of users in the network. However, the special few that were given this power seem like they are unaware of what to do with all this power.

This change has resulted into a weird cacophony of long tweets from these people and they are as random as they get.

This guy explains how the whole tweeting with 280 characters is like

Did I get put into the 280 character group on twitter? I can't see how many characters I have left, but I see this weird circular thing on the right hand corner filling up. Odds are, that I did not…. or maybe I did???? Who knows, time to wait for twitter to tell me. lol #Kappa

— Punished DGTL (@Dgtldead) September 27, 2017

This guy feels like ‘God’ thanks to being among the chosen few

Oh shit I was selected as one of the special ones to tweet in 280 characters. HAHAHA suck it losers, I feel like God right now. Wait, I'm not done, I would also like to say that all these words I'm typing right now are useless and I wasted them just because I CAN. These too, lmao

— Big Cat (@BarstoolBigCat) September 27, 2017

Then later on, he thought it sucked

Hey @Jack I'm going to sleep, I love twitter but 280 characters is fucking stupid and this is coming from a special chosen one. Please don't do this. Please. Also thanks again for choosing me for the test case and giving me superpowers. But seriously 280 characters SUCK

— Big Cat (@BarstoolBigCat) September 27, 2017

This guy is having an existential crisis

Oh no they actually gave me 280 characters. Now the joke is ruined and I don't know what to do with all of this space. What did I use to say on twitter? HOW DO I STILL HAVE MORE CHARACTERS??? this limit is way too big. Jesus, still not over? Did I used to have thoughts this long?

— Joseph Fink, 👻🎃healthcare is a human right🎃👻 (@PlanetofFinks) September 27, 2017

This guy decided to use the 280 character limit to write the Lorem ipsum filler text you see during development of webpages

https://twitter.com/_eknock/status/912916670582321152

People are really feeling special with the opportunity to tweet such long tweets

You guys I have 280 characters and I am now officially better than all of you

I really don't have anything else to say but I promise to use this power for good and not evil

69696969696969696969696969696969696969696969696969696969696969696969696969696969696969696969696969696969

— Andrew Lawrence (@ndrew_lawrence) September 27, 2017

Of course there is that one guy who will put the 280 characters into good use by writing an Lorem ipsum paragraph

Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit, sed do eiusmod tempor incididunt ut labore et dolore magna aliqua. Ut enim ad minim veniam, quis nostrud exercitation ullamco laboris nisi ut aliquip ex ea commodo consequat. Suck it losers, I get 280 characters to waste!

— #CEASEFIRE 🇵🇸✡️🇦🇫🧠🏳️‍⚧️ (@JShahryar) September 27, 2017

Got tired after the first four o’s

I want a girl with a short skirt and a lo
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— Fiora (@FioraAeterna) September 27, 2017

So many questions. Future tweets will be like this

Hello @jack 280 characters look fun for the moment but I think it wouldn't be good in the long run. Please reconsider. How is your family. What time is it in USA? Do you think aliens visit USA only? Do you really believe that North Korea has got hazardous nukes? Aur bta bhai kuch

— Rofl Gandhi 2.0 🏹 (@RoflGandhi_) September 27, 2017

Ironical that an inactive guy was given this power

https://twitter.com/_JoshCall/status/912869555323723776

To end this stream of 280 character long tweets, we now head over to this gem of a tweet that shows how Jack’s tweet could have been shorter

139 characters pic.twitter.com/WkfdXL8oLh

— Caitlin Kelly (@caitlin__kelly) September 26, 2017

We also have the typical reactions from people about this big change by Twitter.

Longer woos 

old twitter: send nudes bb

new 280 char twitter: dearest Penelope, it's been a harsh winter's time since thou booty has graced thy screen

— Alpha Male (real) (@SortaBad) September 26, 2017

When you want to use the entire 280 character limit

When you're trying to reach the 280 word limit on a tweet but have nothing important to say pic.twitter.com/Vgasu2mIQV

— Hungerpangs™ 🇰🇪 🇪🇷 (@ShikoWAwanjish) September 27, 2017

More long format jokes

140: i want pie for breakfast

280: i want 3.14159265358979323846264338327950288419716939937510582097494459230781640628620899 for breakfast

— Hail Hydra(tion) (@aksorojas) September 27, 2017

Differences between 140 vs 280

140 character twitter vs. 280 character twitter. pic.twitter.com/zQr5UrBZNG

— Francisco M. Alvarez (@frankalvarez) September 27, 2017

 

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