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Users can create posts consisting of up to 500 characters of text or 5 minutes of video content (compared to Twitter's 280 characters of text and 2 minutes 20 seconds of video content for non-paying users). [27] [38] However, Threads lacks other common social media features, such as trending stories, and direct messaging. [38]
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 ...
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.
Facebook-parent Meta officially launched its Twitter competitor, Threads, last Wednesday, after first confirming its plans for the app just three months ago.
Composing a thread on Twitter can be challenging as you need to separate the whole text into 280-character chunks. According to a tweet posted by app researcher Jane Manchun Wong, twitter's ...
The 140-character limit also increased the usage of URL shortening services such as bit.ly, goo.gl, tinyurl.com, tr.im, and other content-hosting services such as TwitPic, memozu.com and NotePub to accommodate multimedia content and text longer than 140 characters. Since June 2011, Twitter has used its own t.co domain for automatic shortening ...
Instagram’s Threads app, a text-based social media platform poised to become Twitter’s latest competitor, is now available to users in more than 100 countries.
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 ...