Microblogging has always sucked IMO. It’s always been more geared towards shouting your opinion and leaving, and it actively discourages any discussion by hiding reply threads and making it a nightmare to follow. Most people aren’t ready for this take, though…
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.
Twitter must be the worst platform to hold discussions on ever conceived, even before it turned into a fascist echo chamber.
Microblogging has always sucked IMO. It’s always been more geared towards shouting your opinion and leaving, and it actively discourages any discussion by hiding reply threads and making it a nightmare to follow. Most people aren’t ready for this take, though…
Bluesky has reply threads, but in general I agree
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.
That’s like saying that a battleaxe is too unwieldy for cooking. Yes you are correct, but why the hell are you using a battleaxe for cooking?
Use the right tools for the right job.
I think that’s exactly what he’s saying.