Yesterday, the internet was in a frenzy over rumors circulating that Twitter was considering increasing their character limit per tweet from 140 to 10,000. Of course, this seems like an outlandish decision–much like everyone initially considered Facebook’s Timeline feature an abhorrent invasion of privacy, then soon realized it was an essential creeping tool. So I myself won’t be so quick to judge, as I’m not a huge Twitter user (See: my whopping 231 followers. Suck it, Beyoncé.)
Late Tuesday afternoon, Twitter’s co-founder and CEO, Jack Dorsey released a statement with regards to the 10,000 character rumors, but I stopped reading it because it was too long.
Check out the Twitter10K reactions Twitter has to offer, all within 140 characters.
I hope Twitter expands the 140-character limit to 10,000 because I feel like the Internet trolls have really been forced to hold back.
— Rex Huppke (@RexHuppke) January 5, 2016
When Twitter transforms favourites into likes, then 140 characters to 10K.#Twitter10k pic.twitter.com/qpNtefXBBT
— ~ (@martiaaaaaal) January 6, 2016
https://twitter.com/briangaar/status/684765501726179330
https://twitter.com/ReformedBroker/status/684419523081035776
About to read my Twitter timeline. 😂 #Twitter10k pic.twitter.com/7DN6VqrXqL
— Henrik B (@henrikbmusic) January 6, 2016
https://twitter.com/PoliticalGroove/status/684810912855805952
Just wanted to show you how long 10,000 characters is. $TWTR pic.twitter.com/XPeeKFQJOe
— Dan Primack (@danprimack) January 5, 2016
https://twitter.com/DaftLimmy/status/684690886408695808
users: we'd like an edit button for tweets
twitter: how about 10,000 characters?
users: no we'd actually quite like-
twitter: #twitter10k
— Jack Edwards (@jackbenedwards) January 6, 2016
When you have 10k characters to use and you are in a Twitter fight #Twitter10k pic.twitter.com/tZDURllqP8
— Chief (@WxrdProwse) January 6, 2016
https://twitter.com/thenikhilkapur/status/684783783472566277
[Titanic sinking]
Twitter Executives: What if we let people wear shorts in the dining room?— Mike Drucker (@MikeDrucker) January 5, 2016
"I see way more than 10,000 characters on Twitter already!" -if all our moms used Twitter.
— Dan Wilbur (@DanWilbur) January 6, 2016
really excited for neil degrasse tyson to use 10,000 characters to explain why the 'star wars' droids wouldn't say 'bleep blorp'
— andy™ (@andylevy) January 5, 2016
[h/t Some eCards]