Twitter was sort of like a code-golf game when it was 140. Annoying, but it was their gimmick… it also made sense when theoretically people posted by SMS. 280 was freer but then it becomes more like any other social media… and people would just post as threads anyway, which was pretty much like a reddit or facebook post with the most confusing interface ever, and the ability to reply to or ‘like’ sentences individually, which is interesting but not super useful.
When they upped the characters it changed the character. You can’t have substantive discussion in 140, but in 280 you can be tedious trying.
Twitter was sort of like a code-golf game when it was 140. Annoying, but it was their gimmick… it also made sense when theoretically people posted by SMS. 280 was freer but then it becomes more like any other social media… and people would just post as threads anyway, which was pretty much like a reddit or facebook post with the most confusing interface ever, and the ability to reply to or ‘like’ sentences individually, which is interesting but not super useful.