This expansion, however could also work against the platform in some way. Twitter is known for its noisy class of professional pundits. These are folks who aim to discuss and disectday to day events through voluminous paragraphs and threads. This directly works against the fast moving pace of Twitter as a platform. Allowing and encouraging users to write expansive paragraphs where they would have initially summarised it all in just a sentence ot two messes up with the real-time nature of the site.
Editing Tweets
The move to double the character limit was met with positive feedback in the most part. Most were quick to go ahead and test the limits, in classic twitter fashion of course. The others were ranting about the inability to edit tweets in this day and age. Admittedly, Twitter is among the very few social platforms that do not allow for this. — NUFF (@nuffsaidNY) November 7, 2017 Users: We’d like to edit tweets please. Twitter: What was that? You want #280characters? Users: NO we want to EDIT tweets! Twitter: Got it! 280 characters it is! Users: ? Twitter: Done! You all now have 280 characters ? — Safwan Ahmedmia (@SuperSaf) November 8, 2017
