On Tuesday, May 24th as I was running errands with my Dad I received my usual 12:00 PM News Notification that I get to my iPhone. The top news headline stated "Twitter will stretch its 140-character limit" which instantly made me groan. I clicked on the article and began to read.
The company has stated that it will "only could text in its character count. Twitter handles in replies (marked with an "@" symbol), as well as photos, GIFs, videos and polls will no longer be counted against the character limits in a tweet".
My first and only reaction was "Wonderful, now I have to read more creative tweets that comes sprawling onto my feed". Don't get me wrong, I use Twitter daily. I love it, it is my most used social media weapon. But the beauty that makes Twitter so great is the limit it has, you have to convey your message to your followers in 140 unique characters. I understand that they now are getting smarter about reducing the limit with the "@" symbol and attempting to help make this change to benefit their social media users. 140-characters is what makes Twitter...well, Twitter. It is not like Facebook or Instagram where there is no character limit. Believe me, some of you people need to be limited of what you post, the content in it and the character limit in said post.
Twitter was created in March 21, 2006 which puts me in the 6th grade (I feel incredibly old saying that). I first created my own Twitter account my junior year in high school when about 15 people in my area had it. It was simple, fun, and efficient to use. What worries me is Twitter will bend to their users pleas and abolish their 140-character limit.
Thankfully, Twitter's CEO Jack Dorsey has shot down those rumors of that happening.
"That concept of brevity, speed and live conversation -- being able to think of something and put it out to the world instantly -- that's what's most important," said Dorsey in a prepared statement on Tuesday. "As long as things are fast, easy, simple and expressive, we're going to look at what we can do to make Twitter a better experience."
After reading Dorsey's statement, this Twitter user felt relieved and happy that Twitter won't be following suit to unlimited characters any time soon.
