I still don't understand why Twitter has not lifted the 140-char limit.
Posterous, Tumblr, Google Buzz, Facebook all allow unlimited status update, along with pictures, links, videos posting.
I'd love to see when Twitter can change.
Posterous, Tumblr, Google Buzz, Facebook all allow unlimited status update, along with pictures, links, videos posting.
I'd love to see when Twitter can change.
What really annoys me about it is that they don't limit the characters in the text box - you can happily paste a novel in there if you want. Just when you go to post, an error that you're over the limit (at least they do say by how much).
It's clear that they use JS on the box (if you don't wait for the page to load, the box won't auto-expand as you type) - why they don't implement a simple script to stop typing beyond the limit is beyond me...
I could see them not having a letter-count display shown by default (since most statuses are comfortably <420 chars), but it'd be nice if a "20 chars too long" thing appeared below the text box once you started typing too much.
I'm thinking that once you've written out the text you seek some place to post it and so this sort of thing increases interactions on the site, after all you're already there - you make it into a message to several friends or start a page about it or whatever. Alternatively people put it on a blog and then link their blog into their profile in someway, again increasing the information available on that person, strengthening interactions and widening the link graph.
Just my initial thought, no inside info.