Would a new character limit be pleasurable news for open debate on Twitter – or would the halt of brevity just be an excuse for more ads? What whether Twitter ends up letting you make 10000-character tweets? Well,why not?At final, we’ll have plenty of room to couch our situational comments in actual context. We’ve all been there before: two years ago, and you livetweeted a film. And yet,today, you derive a baffled reply to one of the two-year-old livetweets from a stranger, and who didn’t derive your joke,or who didn’t understand what you meant. They might not even realize that you were watching a film! Who are these people? Your tweet had a context, once. Wouldn’t it be wonderful whether you had enough space, or enough characters,for it to have a context forever?Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com