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this post was submitted on 13 Nov 2025
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The whole idea behind Twitter (character limits etc.) was obviously a bad idea from the moment texting became obsolete thanks to IM services.
You mean because Twitter is an SMS-based messaging app?... The character limits are arbitrary, not a technical limitation. Which is why they doubled them at one point, I believe.
The limits were meant to act as a micro-blogging enforcement measure, for micro attention spans.
Actually, no, the initial limit was precisely because of SMS character limits - Twitter in the first few years had an SMS gateway where you could send a text and it would be posted under your account.
Obviously later on it was an arbitrarily kept limit, but the limit itself, even doubled, makes it a horrible platform for any kind of debate.
I see... TIL, thanks.