Did Twitter Just Ruin Itself With Its New Set of Updates?
On Tuesday, May 24, Twitter outlined a series of new changes to its decade-old service and...look, everybody loves to complain whenever beloved platforms get tweaked ever so slightly, but seriously, these tweaks kind of suck.
Let’s start with the positive: Twitter is making it slightly easier to cram 140 characters into a tweet by eliminating space-taking constrictions. “When replying to a Tweet, @names will no longer count toward the 140-character count,” Todd Sherman, senior product manager, writes in a memo.
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