HOWTO: Fix Twitter
Wired (and everyone else) is reporting that Twitter is finally testing longer tweets. Maybe 280 characters! I had a better fix six years ago:
ITHCWY: Twitter: Put some status in status updates: Give me an extra character for every year that I’ve been with… http://goo.gl/fb/gCEpT
— Robert Ellison (@abfo) July 8, 2011
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(Published to the Fediverse as: HOWTO: Fix Twitter #etc #twitter HOWTO: Fix Twitter - instead of upping the limit to 240 characters drip out an extra character a year, and for good behavior. )
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