Manton and Daniel react to Twitter’s testing of longer, 280-character tweets. They discuss the merits of longer micro-posts, Twitter’s product evolution priorities, and the appropriateness of offering the functionality to only a subset of customers, and much, much more.
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Links:
- Can’t Fit Your Tweet? – Twitter announcement of the new longer-tweets test.
- More Characters – Longer Medium post about the changes at Twitter.
- Instagram – The world’s most popular square photos.
- Plain Text Attachments – John Gruber suggests that instead of longer posts, Twitter should support text media attachments.
