{"id":13925,"date":"2016-03-20T11:04:25","date_gmt":"2016-03-20T15:04:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=13925"},"modified":"2016-03-20T11:04:25","modified_gmt":"2016-03-20T15:04:25","slug":"twitter-wont-raise-140-character-limit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2016\/03\/20\/twitter-wont-raise-140-character-limit\/","title":{"rendered":"Twitter Won&rsquo;t Raise 140-Character Limit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/9to5mac.com\/2016\/03\/18\/twitter-ceo-jack-dorsey-says-social-network-isnt-raising-140-character-limit-on-tweets\/\">Zac Hall<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"http:\/\/9to5mac.com\/2016\/03\/18\/twitter-ceo-jack-dorsey-says-social-network-isnt-raising-140-character-limit-on-tweets\/\"><p>Twitter <a href=\"http:\/\/9to5mac.com\/2015\/06\/11\/twitter-dm-limit-ceo-change\/\">upgraded its private Direct Messaging feature<\/a> last year to increase the character limit from 140 to 10,000 characters, but CEO Jack Dorsey shared in an interview with NBC&rsquo;s &ldquo;Today&rdquo; show this morning that the same change will not be coming to tweets.<\/p><p>[&#8230;]<\/p><p>In the past, however, Dorsey has<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/jack\/status\/684496529621557248?lang=en&amp;lang=en\"> tweeted screenshots of text walls <\/a>from Apple&rsquo;s Notes app to communicate a lengthier message that wouldn&rsquo;t fit in 140 characters, but text shots present their own problems like lack of being found in search and being easily translated in other languages.<\/p><\/blockquote>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Zac Hall: Twitter upgraded its private Direct Messaging feature last year to increase the character limit from 140 to 10,000 characters, but CEO Jack Dorsey shared in an interview with NBC&rsquo;s &ldquo;Today&rdquo; show this morning that the same change will not be coming to tweets.[&#8230;]In the past, however, Dorsey has tweeted screenshots of text walls [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"","apple_news_api_id":"","apple_news_api_modified_at":"","apple_news_api_revision":"","apple_news_api_share_url":"","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[49],"class_list":["post-13925","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-twitter"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13925","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13925"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13925\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13926,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13925\/revisions\/13926"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13925"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13925"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13925"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}