I love Twitter with a passion. I’ve been using it for a while now and have made many friends from it, including the people I currently live with. It’s short messages of no more than 140 characters are something that I, as well as others, invest plenty of time in reading and replying to.
Today I want to talk about thrush a growing trend in tweeting. TwitLonger has been around for quite a while but luckily was never adapted that much, most people sticking with the limits of Twitter. TwitLonger is a website that allows one to extend their tweet past the 140 character limit in place. It does this by putting the tweet on an external site, then putting a preview and a link to the full tweet on Twitter. Not many people used the service, much to my happiness.
However, with it being integrated into more popular programs including TweetDeck and the official Android app, more people are letting their tweets extend the character limit. I’m slowly encountering tweets that are turning into full blog posts, and I do not like this.
If I want to read a blog post I will visit a blog for it. Twitter is for micro-blogging, and ideas like TwitLonger really bother me. If your tweet extends the 140 character limit it is no longer a tweet, and more of a post that deserves to go on Tumblr.
That was all a bit rambly, but this is a rambling ranty post. Basically, please stop using Twitlonger guys. Save those “tweets” for your personal blog.
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