Florian RothDec 21, 2022
I can only recommend NOT to take advantage of the higher character limit.
Keep it short and precise.
If you need to convey more than 280 chars, better write a blog.
Show threadFlorian Roth
I admit: If your toot doesn’t fit on a single page of my high resolution iPhone screen, I won’t read it
Dec 21, 2022 at 11:49amWeb
Show threadJillZDec 21, 2022
@cyb3rops LOL. Similarly, I laugh every time I see the warning: “do you want to read the article before you retweet?” on Twitter, because paywalls won’t let me read more than the first lines of any linked article anyway. At least here in the fediverse, longer toots share more info & lots of kind people share non-paywalled links. Our attention is a valuable commodity. It pays to be succinct (which I am not)
Show threadFlorian RothDec 21, 2022
@DefiantJZ Tweets and toots should be a teaser, a short message, a title, an image and a short description.
I don’t want to read five paragraphs from which I have to extract the relevant info. I want the authors to extract it <for me>.
That’s the whole benefit of a short message service.
Show threadAaron 🥞Dec 21, 2022
@cyb3rops That’s still a generous length to give 😂