6th January, 2016
Dwindling fortunes on the business end has called some drastic measures on the part of Twitter management. First the social media company changed from favourite to like, then it changed its icon to ‘love’ but when Twitter toyed with idea of increasing its characters from 140 to 10,000, it got a resounding No from its users.
Here is how they reacted to the news of #Twitter10k:
140 characters is the only reason @twitter is unique, 10,000 characters then it comes crashing down. No to #Twitter10k
— Bisugee Marketing (@BisugeeMktg) January 6, 2016
10k characters #Twitter10k ? 🙃🙃🙃🙃🙃🙃 ain't rooting for this….maybe an edit tweet button would do
— Dallas Whitesides (@DiazJoshx) January 6, 2016
#Twitter10k twitter is gonna turn into facebook
— louie☁️ (@IEROHOWELL) January 6, 2016
twitter is called 'twitter' for a purpose. and i think it should stay as it is. #Twitter10k
— catnip everdeen (@jmllxrln) January 6, 2016
We can't even take in 10,000 refugees, let alone 10,000 Twitter characters
#Twitter10k
— Larne Roadie (@LeifB73) January 6, 2016
#Twitter10k The 140 character limit is why people use Twitter. Are people really that thick that they're unable to keep to a simple word cou
— Garrie Coleman (@garrie_coleman) January 6, 2016
Nay to the #Twitter10k for me. The 140 limit is one of the best features of Twitter, forcing people to be concise and creative, no rambling!
— Ellie Box (@ellieb45) January 6, 2016
Dont like #Twitter10k idea. Working out how to articulate what I want to say in 140characters is the only mental stimulation I get some days
— Libby (@libbyarnold94) January 6, 2016
if Twitter really does change to allow 10,000+ characters in a tweet I will delete within the first 2.7 seconds #Twitter10k
— Harry Seaton (@harryseaton) January 6, 2016
If we want to say something intelligent in 140 characters it requires finding new ways of saying things. That's worth preserving #Twitter10k
— Noel McGivern (@Good_Beard) January 6, 2016
I must say, I'm against #Twitter10k. The art & craft of brevity is the most fun part of #twitter. Once that stops, the game stops. In fact,
— Eliott Wolbrom (@ewolbrom) January 5, 2016
#Twitter10K to be called Blogger.
— Christopher Scollo (@spycho) January 5, 2016
We should've all left when they came up with the love heart. That really was the low point. #Twitter10K
— Lamia (@LI_politico) January 5, 2016