140

Restrict tweets to 140 characters

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Restrict tweets to 140 characters

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140 is a Chrome plugin to restrict your tweets to 140 characters—and truncate all tweets in your feed to that same perfect length.

Launch tags:Chrome Extensions•Social Media

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I also love this copy on the product's description. "Eventually (in an hour?) Twitter will find a way to circumvent our extension, we’re sure. The army of progress marches forever forward, burning everything good in the world and salting the earth behind it. But for now, use Slate’s 140 to make Twitter great again." Being brutally honest and funny! :D

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9yr ago

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@arunsathiya All copy credit is to Dan Kois who wrote the article on Slate that this was built for: http://www.slate.com/blogs/futur...

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9yr ago

Hustle Crew Academy

Great product. I've been enjoying the character backlash on Twitter, so this seems like the perfect response @elgreg could you tell us how the truncating part works where 140 limits other people's tweets to? How does it avoid losing any meaning?

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9yr ago

@elgreg @abadesi It does lose meaning. There's absolutely no workaround here. Splitting a 280 tweet into two 140 tweets will occupy the same real estate on the display anyway. I don't get the outrage over #280characters. :)

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9yr ago

VC Puzzle

We wanted flyings cars, all we got was flying Ubers and a Chrome extension that blocks tweets longer than 140 characters.

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9yr ago

Hahaha poor Twitter... I don't like the idea of 240 characters. But truncating the tweets in an artificial way only means a potential loss of info (if you still use twitter for that). The future of this is some kind of AI software that can summarize the social network feed info, not just cut it. This extension could be very useful now, as a lot of ppl is sharing stupid long tweets to test the functionality. It deserves an upvote.

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9yr ago

imho the best part about Twitter was the 140 character limit. It made it a writer's platform, for all of the other issues it has. It improved my writing and I think it forced most tweets to be more artful. I love this product!

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9yr ago