Adrian CockcroftOne thing I liked about the early days at #twitter was the 140 char limit that made it into a conversation. 280 chars was OK, but as the limits get higher on #Mastodon and other places it's turning into a blogging site. The interactivity of a single thought was low friction, and its more work to decide what to say, and more work to skip over other conversations the longer it gets. (This would have been four tweets).
Harri@adrianco I didn’t really see anything of value here, no offense
@Harri2230 I'm trying to plant the idea that more isn't always better, as I see people asking for bigger toot limits. Constraints can be good, even if people bump up against them and complain.
@adrianco That 4 tweet paragraph was still pretty quick to read and so much better UX than 4 individual tweets. The fact that tweet storms became so popular should have been a hint to Twitter that people wanted to post more long form sometimes. It's not that hard to support both IMO.
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