The distribution of Twitter length, look everyone is cramping their messages into 140 characters and probably using quite a bit of abbreviations. I don’t see how imposing a character limit is supposed to be exactly innovative here. Twitter could probably do better if they increase the character limit.
Distribution of tweet length
Get the full Twitter report here: http://blog.hubspot.com/Portals/249/sotwitter09.pdf
[via Mashable]
What happens when you can’t Twitter within 140 characters? http://www.twitlonger.com/
Or…
You could start a blog as we did.
uzyn 12:31 pm on June 11, 2009 Permalink
That graph is definitely come as a surprise to me. Normally when a character limit so small is imposed and the users are aware of it, I would have expected the graph to be heavy on the long side, but not at the very end.
This clearly shows that Twitter’s limit is forcing a lot of its users to abbreviate unnecessary, even to the extend to affecting the readability of the messages.
Twitter should have lifted the limit already, or impose a significantly larger limit, if they still have to impose limits to prevent users from yakking away too much, especially since SMS is not longer one of the key ingredients of Twitter.