Comments on: Can More Characters Help Monetize Twitter?

By: Dave

Dave — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 16:41:15 +0000

I think something gets overlooked, despite how many people may use a 3rd party application, SMS is still a big gateway for people to twitter. Considering that 160 characters is the norm for most SMS messages, with the limit of 140 it allows for a twitter update along with the username to come through in one message instead of a two part message.

Call my old school, or “last year” but I still like using SMS for my twitter updates.

By: Adam

Adam — Wed, 14 Jan 2009 21:32:54 +0000

@scott – I’m aware of big tweet, it looks like a great app, and you’re right, just the solution to this problem. I actually suggested that to Mike when we originally had this convo ;)

By: Scott Carter

Scott Carter — Wed, 14 Jan 2009 21:27:42 +0000

Adam – you can post 240 characters today to Twitter using BigTweet – http://bigtweet.com/

It breaks a larger post into two nicely formatted sequential tweets. There is also a 140 character mode and lots of other features. Installs quickly and easily on all the major browsers.

Scott
http://twitter.com/scott_carter

By: Would You Pay for More Characters on Twitter? | Microblink

Would You Pay for More Characters on Twitter? | Microblink — Wed, 14 Jan 2009 14:02:36 +0000

[...] already asked, “How much would you pay for Twitter?“, Adam Covati (@covati) is stirring the pot with a specific feature suggestion brought up by @mike9r that he feels people may get excited [...]

By: Adam

Adam — Wed, 14 Jan 2009 07:45:53 +0000

Thanks for the comment, Mike. I’ll be sure to check out your post in the morning when my eyes work again. I’ll get the other Mike to weigh in too!

By: Mike Templeton

Mike Templeton — Wed, 14 Jan 2009 05:35:11 +0000

I’ve always been in favor of a pro-version of Twitter that would allow for more functionality, but hadn’t thought about an expanded character count as one of those features. The more I think about it, the more I actually like that idea. While Twitter has been built around the idea of 140 characters, it is frustrating when you’ve got to go back and edit a few words down just to make the character cutoff.

I’ve expanded a bit more in a post on Microblink so as not to clog up your comments:
http://microblink.com/2009/01/14/would-you-pay-for-more-characters-on-twitter/