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		tormeh on Sept 2, 2014 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: The End of Big Twitter I think a character limit is a good idea, but it should be closer to 400 or something. It should force people to be concise, but not force people to divide their message in multiple posts. I don't really know where the sweet spot is, but I don't think it's 140.

calinet6 on Sept 3, 2014 | [–]

I imagine you could design a UX which encouraged people to keep their messages short, but enabled longer elaboration when necessary.

lepht on Sept 3, 2014 | [–]

App.net's 256 characters is a very nice 'sweet spot' for me.

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