#RIPTwitter has trended to dizzying heights with the rumors circulating on the site about major change to the way users have enjoyed Twitter. After the euphoric high of #OneTeam, is Twitter now fated to crash for real? Let’s take a closer look at these two rumors and people’s reactions to them.
Goodbye 140 Characters?
Twitter has announced that it ill soon be launching its new product that will now allow users to post up to 10,000 characters long. Does this new-found promise of literary freedom be welcomed by the site’s userbase? Not quite so, it seems.
Just wanted to show you how long 10,000 characters is. $TWTR pic.twitter.com/XPeeKFQJOe
— Dan Primack (@danprimack) January 5, 2016
While some folks did recognize that this issue would die down as quicly as it started, a nnumber of Twitter virtuosos bemoaned the oncoming irrelevance of their finely-honed 140-character brevity. Don’t laugh; brevity is indeed the soul of wit.
The 140 character limit is crucial to Twitter’s integrity. I will stop using the website if we can’t be held to basic limits on length. 1/72
— Dan Trombly (@stcolumbia) January 5, 2016
This is terrible news for people like me whose core, career-defining skill is writing concise sentences that are exactly 140 characters long
— Tom Gara (@tomgara) January 5, 2016
Others, though, just seem to not really care either way.
So long as HEADLINES (what you see before you wish to engage with content) on Twitter is <140 characters, length of content doesn’t matter!
— Scott Belsky (@scottbelsky) January 5, 2016
Jack Dorsey assured the Twitterverse that nothing bad was gong to happen to their favorite brand of social media once this change goes up. it’s not so much as obliterating th 140-character limit as it is movin on toe the Phase 2 expnsin plan for it. Oh, and tweetstorms aren’t gong away anytime soon.
— Jack (@jack) January 5, 2016
#RIPTwitter: Site to Resemble Facebook?
Due to a new algorithm to arrive anytime next week, Twitter may stop organizing tweets via reverse chronology and will instead adapt a Facebook-like style. Jack Dorsey endorsed it as “the most interesting and most relevant, most important thing that’s happening in your world,”, but users all over the world were already all over it with their boos and nays.
“Twitter is going to change into Facebook”
Everyone rn : #RIPTwitter pic.twitter.com/8h8EwIXp8k
— Rubyna. (@louisobession) February 6, 2016
#RIPTwitter – Do you not remember that famous quote “If it ain’t broke, don’t copy facebook” – well you will if you decide to add timelines
— Chris_Cov (@Chris_hla) February 6, 2016
Some people just really wanted an Edit button. Or a way to cull too many DMs. Anything else, really; just not this… thing.
We. Just. Wanted. A. Freaking. EDIT. BUTTON. #RIPTwitter
— We Are T (@lipwigvimes) February 6, 2016
If they want to make Twitter better they should just introduce features such as edit tweet and delete multiple DMs at once. #RIPTwitter ??
— BelieveInYourself (@HunnyBegum) February 6, 2016
What we asked for:
•An edit button
What Twitter gives us:
•Algorithmic TL
•No more character limits
#RIPTwitter pic.twitter.com/jkOed2O2Bn— H (@Respect_Lovato) February 6, 2016
Some saw the potential troubles this could bring about.
“Excuse me, why don’t you use Twitter?”
“Well, strangers like to threaten my life.”
“Got it. We’ll only show the most popular threats!”— Mike Drucker (@MikeDrucker) February 6, 2016
Other folks are contemplating about taking their business and social branding elsewhere because of this change.
BTW: Please make sure to follow all my other Social Media channels since twitter is killing itself soon with their new system #RIPTwitter
— YU PHOENIX -YUnity- (@YUofficial) February 7, 2016
Or worse, deletion.
Twitter users will do this soon. #RIPTwitter pic.twitter.com/saZn71lLEA
— SHERLOCKED. (@lulzimbela) February 6, 2016
And what does Handsome Jack have to say about the hullabaoo?
Hello Twitter! Regarding #RIPTwitter: I want you all to know we’re always listening. We never planned to reorder timelines next week.
— Jack (@jack) February 6, 2016
Keep talking.
Twitter is live. Twitter is real-time. Twitter is about who & what you follow. And Twitter is here to stay! By becoming more Twitter-y.
— Jack (@jack) February 6, 2016
Look at “while you were away” at the top of your TL. Tweets you missed from people you follow. Pull to refresh to go back to real-time.
— Jack (@jack) February 6, 2016
I *love* real-time. We love the live stream. It’s us. And we’re going to continue to refine it to make Twitter feel more, not less, live!
— Jack (@jack) February 6, 2016
Twitter can help make connections in real-time based on dynamic interests and topics, rather than a static social/friend graph. We get it.
— Jack (@jack) February 6, 2016
Thank you all for your passion and trust. We will continue to work to earn it, and we will continue to listen, and talk!
— Jack (@jack) February 6, 2016
We’ll hold you to that, Jack. We’ve got our eyes on you.
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