
#Twitter280Characters — How its killing tweeple’s user experience.
140 characters used to be the trademark of twitter but it ain’t anymore. A vast majority of Twitter is clearly seen to be in rage against this new 280 characters, we wonder who asked for this thing.
Here are some-Then & Now proofs that the new 280 is incurring more damage than good to user experience in twitter.
Words:
Then:
Words were used less, precise choices were made. 140 characters limit made people think before they type anything.(Exactly, What the world needed.)
Even if you had ever wanted to share more words to express your emotion or the worst-case, you were a celeb who owed an apology, there were always options for tweet threads & notes.
From a director who feels like a complete idiot. pic.twitter.com/vfO8m4U2Hl
— John Carney (@jayceefactory) June 1, 2016
The John Carney Apology tweet
tbh,There is no more fun in words selection. 280 characters ruined it. (Characters : 70)
Now:
I don’t know why twitter added 280 characters limit while previous one was really good. I used to like that a lot, even my mom used to like. This 280 thing really sucks. I don’t know what to type anymore to get to that limit. Still couldn’t reach that limit, even with this. (Characters : 274)
139 characters pic.twitter.com/WkfdXL8oLh
— Caitlin Kelly (@caitlin__kelly) September 26, 2017
Now, Twitter allows more space for hate words & threats. One doesn’t need more words to greet/congratulate — A simple sentence & an apt emoji would do the job. According to psychology, when you express your anger you set yourself loose, there is no control over it. Twitter has done a good job in opening the gates for that.
TWITTER USERS: It would be nice if you stopped people making death threats.
TWITTER: OK, but what if those death threats could be LONGER?
— Mike Drucker (@MikeDrucker) September 26, 2017
It’s all gonna be paragraphs & blog posts. Even expect some bedtime stories & lame jokes in your TL.
One time Hillary was talking about recording the audio book of What Happened and I asked her if it was her first time recording one.
She was shocked and was like “GIRL, I have a Grammy!”
That’s all, that’s my favorite Hillary story.
— Jenna Lowenstein (@just_jenna) November 8, 2017
Emojis:
Then:
Used in right amount & right context.
Thanks for featuring us on #ToolShareTuesday! Love the design you’ve made. 😍 ^kr
— Canva (@canva) September 12, 2017
Happy to hear! 💖
— Slack (@SlackHQ) August 1, 2017
Now:
Looking more like shitty Whatsapp forwards. Scroll fast.
Scroll fast!
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#Twitter280Characters— IRFAN💬 (@simplyirfan) November 8, 2017
When you can now more accurately depict your love of driving: 🚘❤️🚘❤️🚘❤️🚘❤️🚘❤️🚘❤️🚘❤️🚘❤️🚘❤️🚘❤️🚘❤️🚘❤️🚘❤️🚘❤️🚘❤️🚘❤️🚘❤️🚘❤️🚘❤️🚘❤️🚘❤️🚘❤️🚘❤️🚘❤️🚘❤️🚘❤️🚘❤️🚘❤️🚘❤️🚘❤️#drivingmatters#Twitter280Characters
— Mazda Canada (@mazdacanada) November 8, 2017
Hashtags
Then:
140 character limit was the Ultimate Guardian that was preventing us from hashtag over usage & spamming.
Now:
God save us from these #hashtags.

Conclusion :
There are some sane people who put to use these characters wisely or doesn’t use it at all, unfortunately, these kinds of people can be hand-picked in this vast internet community, where the other kind prevails. So, there is a real need for some restrictions & limits like our good old 140 characters to make the user experience of Twitter great again. #bringback140