Here's his announcement on Twitter, among other details: https://twitter.com/jack/status/651003190628872192
http://scripting.com/2015/10/02/whatWouldAFatTweetLookLike.h...
Obviously, they've thought of this internally too. I wonder what the point of the 140 character limit is today (I think it made sense originally).
i know Dave deserves respect but if i was even a janitor at Twitter this post would piss me off.
it seems fruitless to dictate "how" without being part of the "why and why not" discussions.
> that doesn't force you to click a link to see the rest
(includes a link you click to see the rest)
http://scripting.com/2015/10/05/congatsToJack.html
Dave
my favorite part of tweetstorms is the compartmentalization of ideas and arguments. if a point in the story is 50 chars, its 50 chars with a break point. if its 100, let it be 100. making the story one string feel like reading long text, whereas breaking it down feels more comfortable to me.
but this is all subjective, and that website's design is pretty sleek :)
That also raises the question of whether a paragraph should be restricted to 140 characters (assuming that's the see more limit) so it doesn't create a see more tweet itself when retweeted, not sure whether that matters.
2 things:
1) Nearly a decade's worth of technical infrastructure built around the assumption that tweets will only ever be 140 characters.
2) A vocal, but shrinking, group of users who are still using Twitter via SMS.
Twitter's "Follow" function being the core method of interaction, and defaulting to public feeds that you can easily interact with is actually fairly different even from a blog or say tumblr, whose core method of interacting is content-first. The balance of power (you can tweet, I can tweet back, I can retweet you, you can retweet me—and they all look the same and have the same weight in the UI) is the main advantage, and if they can play that well then they have a chance.
My examples are:
The gossip and snark of say Startup L Jackson vs the gossip and snark of a valleywag post.
IRC backchannels during conferences versus a Tweet Wall.
Valleywag is dead because of reasons unrelated to the death of media (and I genuinely miss it). IRC backchannels are dead because IRC is dead.
I assure you, it is not.