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Character Limit chronicles the rise and fall of Twitter after Elon Musk's tumultuous $44-billion-dollar acquisition. The book showcases Musk's volatility, highlighting the actions that led to the company's drastic devaluation and the resurgence of unmoderated hate-speech, misinformation, and white nationalism on the platform.
On July 15, 2020, between 20:00 and 22:00 UTC, 130 high-profile Twitter accounts were reportedly compromised by outside parties to promote a bitcoin scam. [1] [2] Twitter and other media sources confirmed that the perpetrators had gained access to Twitter's administrative tools so that they could alter the accounts themselves and post the tweets directly.
The original limit was seen as an iconic fixture of the platform, [5] [6] [7] encouraging "speed and brevity". [8] In March 2017, the character limit on Twitter was changed so that media attachments or mentions in replies would not increase the character limit. [9] [10] [11] In November 2017, Twitter increased its character limit from 140 to ...
In case 2020 wasn’t dystopian enough, hackers on July 15 hijacked the Twitter accounts of former President Barack Obama, presidential hopeful Joe Biden, Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos, Kim Kardashian ...
Twitter is making changes to its 140-character limit, and links to media and @replies will no longer count against the cap.
Twitter Inc is building a new feature that will allow users post messages as long as 10,000 characters, Re/code reported on Tuesday. Twitter considering 10,000-character limit for tweets Skip to ...
Twitter reserved 20 characters for the username, leaving 140 characters for the post. [4] The original limit was seen as an iconic fixture of the platform, [5] [6] [7] encouraging "speed and brevity". [8] Increasing the limit had been a topic of discussion inside the company for years, and had been resurfaced in 2015 for ways to grow the userbase.
The original, strict 140 character limit was gradually relaxed. In 2016, Twitter announced that attachments, links, and media such as photos, videos, and the person's handle, would no longer count; a user photo post used to count for around 24 characters. [106] [107] In 2017, Twitter handles were similarly excluded. [108] The same year, Twitter ...