>But it might do wonders for intelligent discourse.
I see this thrown around a lot, but I don't think removing the 140 character limit will suddenly make Twitter a bastion of thoughtful and intelligent discourse. Twitter is huge, and the "intelligent" discourse I would expect to grow on Twitter would probably be the same "intelligent" discourse Reddit has had for years.
I still believe the character limit on tweets makes it effective for users of Twitter to consume a lot of content from a wide range of people. To me, the end 140 character limit, would be the beginning of artificially curated streams (like Facebook). 50 140-char tweets from 45 different people likely has very different engagement than 10 500-word tweets from 10 people. At that point, whats the difference between Twitter and Tumblr?
I see this thrown around a lot, but I don't think removing the 140 character limit will suddenly make Twitter a bastion of thoughtful and intelligent discourse. Twitter is huge, and the "intelligent" discourse I would expect to grow on Twitter would probably be the same "intelligent" discourse Reddit has had for years.
I still believe the character limit on tweets makes it effective for users of Twitter to consume a lot of content from a wide range of people. To me, the end 140 character limit, would be the beginning of artificially curated streams (like Facebook). 50 140-char tweets from 45 different people likely has very different engagement than 10 500-word tweets from 10 people. At that point, whats the difference between Twitter and Tumblr?