Twitter at #280Characters
Last week, twitter was a hit by a storm, all the timelines were flooded and everyone was just talking about one thing — #280Characters. If you are a social media enthusiast like us then you know what we are talking about, in case you’ve been living under a rock, it’s time for some #SocialMediaGyan.
Twitter recently doubled the tweet character limit from 140 to 280. For over the years, twitter was known as a platform to where you voice your opinions in the least possible words. It was one of the most challenging experience to interact with follower tweeples. In September, twitter launched a test that expanded the 140-character limit so every person around the world could express themselves easily in a Tweet.
So the twitter was divided between two groups, one who were with the decisions and one who were against it.
Here are few snapshots which got us thinking…
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Censorship? Popularity? We can’t decide if we agree or not.
Some, like the international NGO for conservation of wildlife WWF, made use of the new feature to rally for their cause.
Including us, lot of people had mixed feelings about it.
While lot of people wanted an edit option instead of 280 characters.
and a majority of people embraced this change.
While we are debating over this, please tweet us your thoughts in 280 or maybe 140 characters.
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