Thursday, January 7, 2016

Twitter 140-Character Limit About to Change

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Longer tweets are coming soon to Twitter.Twitter is building a new feature that will allow users to tweet things longer than the traditional 140-character limit, and the company is targeting a launch date toward the end of Q1, according to multiple sources familiar with the company’s plans. Twitter is currently considering a 10,000 character limit, according to these sources. That’s the same character limit the company uses for its Direct Messages product, so it isn’t a complete surprise.


Source: Twitter 140-Character Limit About to Change | Re/code



Twitter 140-Character Limit About to Change

Friday, January 1, 2016

What's ahead for social media in 2016?


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Snapchat will go public CEO Evan Spiegel must be carefully monitoring the public markets to figure out what it’ll take to build on his private company’s roughly $16 billion valuation. But all signs point to an IPO, probably in the second half of next year. The ephemeral messaging and content app is growing fast and has massive scale, with 100 million daily active users,


Source: What’s ahead for social media in 2016?



What's ahead for social media in 2016?