Twitter's 140 characters: a blessing or a curse? – Chips with Everything tech podcast
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Earlier this year, Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey's announcement to relax the platform's 140-character limit was met with uproar. Matt Shore and guests Dhiraj Murthy and Laurie Rice discuss the reasons people love it
Earlier this year, the announcement by Twitter that it might scrap its 140-character limit set its users into a frenzy. Many argued that the character limit was what separated their beloved Twitter from other social media platforms. But what is it about this limit that people love? And what effect might it be having on us in a political, economic, and social sense?
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