{"id":2206,"date":"2017-11-13T00:03:29","date_gmt":"2017-11-12T22:03:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.yksityinenkielitoimisto.fi\/?p=2206"},"modified":"2017-11-13T09:05:32","modified_gmt":"2017-11-13T07:05:32","slug":"the-word-of-the-week-is-280characters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.yksityinenkielitoimisto.fi\/en\/the-word-of-the-week-is-280characters\/","title":{"rendered":"The word of the week is <i>#280characters<\/i>."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The big event this week for people on Twitter: the maximum size of a tweet went from 140 to 280 characters. Users had many opinions, for and against; I&#8217;m in the &#8220;against&#8221; camp.<\/p>\n<p>In my opinion, the special nature of Twitter came from its short messages. They enabled fast reading and so made it possible to follow\u00a0a swiftly-moving thread. You can&#8217;t <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Rsuominen\/status\/928167895351353344\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">skim<\/a> multi-line messages<strong>\u00a0<\/strong>the same way; they require closer reading. The number of characters has doubled, but not the value of the content.<\/p>\n<p>I often recommend Twitter in my courses as a tool for developing writing skills. The value of the tool is based on learning how to craft a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.yksityinenkielitoimisto.net\/yk\/sana\/en.index.php?word_id=2c6b048d96741e125d92942a82270878\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">concise<\/a> message. The 280-character tweets look like first drafts of<strong>\u00a0<\/strong>140-character tweets\u00a0in need of an editor.<\/p>\n<p>The number of characters also seems to affect the type of content. More and more, my stream includes Facebook-style stories. Obviously, through these changes, Twitter is targeting<strong>\u00a0<\/strong>Facebook-style users rather than its current, more pragmatic users.<\/p>\n<p>What can those of us who dislike this change do?\u00a0Chrome users can <a href=\"https:\/\/chrome.google.com\/webstore\/detail\/140\/lhgijjjdomnmpmneiajmahjihnohicam\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">download<\/a> an add-on that\u00a0cuts\u00a0the tweet\u00a0off after 140 characters. About a quarter of my Saturday morning tweet stream\u00a0showed the red X left by this truncator.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The big event this week for people on Twitter: the maximum size of a tweet went from 140 to 280 characters. Users had many opinions, for and against; I&#8217;m in the &#8220;against&#8221; camp. In my opinion, the special nature of Twitter came from its short messages. They enabled fast reading and so made it possible [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14,15],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-2206","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-english-en","7":"category-wordoftheweek-en","8":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yksityinenkielitoimisto.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2206","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yksityinenkielitoimisto.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yksityinenkielitoimisto.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yksityinenkielitoimisto.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yksityinenkielitoimisto.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2206"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.yksityinenkielitoimisto.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2206\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2214,"href":"https:\/\/www.yksityinenkielitoimisto.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2206\/revisions\/2214"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yksityinenkielitoimisto.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2206"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yksityinenkielitoimisto.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2206"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yksityinenkielitoimisto.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2206"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}