Comments on: Oh how tweet it is! Twitter hitting an important threshold of use

By: YA Commoner

YA Commoner — Sun, 18 Mar 2007 16:51:09 +0000

Maybe you can say a lot in 140 characters. Me, not so much. You must be very clever.

By: Tris Hussey

Tris Hussey — Sat, 17 Mar 2007 22:24:50 +0000

You’re right. Right now there is a 140 character limit. I think that is set so the messages come through in one SMS message and not two. Probably a limitation of the SMS format. A lot can be said in 140 characters, though.

By: YA Commoner

YA Commoner — Sat, 17 Mar 2007 17:59:47 +0000

I may be mistaken, but longer updates may suffer due to the “X’ characters limitation of Twitter posts. I think it’s about 140-some characters, which implies pretty short longer updates … though maybe newer versions will bypass that ?