Anyone wanting to bypass the 140 limit is already doing so using an image with text in it. And anyone who spams really long messages using URLs is going to see their followers count drop pretty rapidly.
Hasn't twitter been replacing long URLs with their own short URLs for a while now? So this change probably won't make a difference, assuming users will still have to hover the link to see the tooltip of the full URL.
Twitter's job right now is to figure out how to make their UX less niche and grow market share before they lose ground to the Whatsapps and Snapchats of the world, not to police edge cases that are better managed by simple social norms.
My point is that this will become the new social norm, much like now it is the norm to write short cryptic messages that readers may or may not understand.
oneeyedpigeon|9 years ago
intoverflow2|9 years ago
yep....
https://twitter.com/jack/status/684496529621557248
JetSpiegel|9 years ago
Robadob|9 years ago
richmarr|9 years ago
Twitter's job right now is to figure out how to make their UX less niche and grow market share before they lose ground to the Whatsapps and Snapchats of the world, not to police edge cases that are better managed by simple social norms.
rdancer|9 years ago