By Olivia Harvey, HelloGiggles
When Twitter first burst onto the social media scene, users were a
bit stunned by the fact that they could only express themselves within
140 letters/symbols. But now that Twitter has decided to increase its character limit, the company is finding that users still aren’t happy.
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Twitter announced that they will double the character limit from 140 characters to 280 characters per tweet.
The idea sounds freeing and Twitter hoped that this would make users want to tweet more often. However, users have since expressed their annoyance
that the site decided to focus on character limits instead of finding a
way to control cyber-bullying or adding an edit button — two features
Twitter users have wanted for years.
Semi-ironically,
the public has taken to Twitter to air their grievances with the
platform. Most users can agree that the 140 character limit was never
really a problem, and would be less of an issue if we were given said
edit button.
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And also, doing something about the racists and misogynists flooding Twitter daily would be helpful, but…
On top of Twitter seemingly ignoring requests from users that could
potentially change the platform for the better, people are kind of
freaking out about how this new character increase might impact tweets
coming from the White House.
Of course, only time will tell if Twitter’s character increase will
enhance or hinder user experience on the platform. They’ve given people
the opportunity to make sounder arguments and better fleshed out points,
whatever those points may be.
Hopefully Twitter fans will use their increased limit for good, and
hopefully the site will listen to the masses when it comes to
introducing their next feature (*crosses fingers for edit button*).
