We’re contemplating introducing a limit to number of characters per bit. What’re your thoughts?

No.

What’s the goal of doing this? Personally haven’t seen very long bits. People seem to carry over a twitter mental model already. Would be better to experiment (A/B) this I would say

Gotcha. It is a bit awkward to read this. Is the goal to improve readability then? Can also be solved by a right nudge instead of character limit, something to consider. Would say that as a “bit” metaphor a very long post doesn’t make too much sense. (Maybe a longer post is a byte :P)

Okay try writing what you wrote as 3 separate bits once @harshaog and then I’ll explain

For this purpose this seems a much better approach. Consumption already feels convenient for sure replying to this specific sub-bit But control of reply is still in the hand of creator. A consumer of the thread might want to reply to another sub-bit which the creator chose not to separate out. But that might be too much to solve. I’ve seen some website that allows replies to any specific sentence you choose, that would be overkill here

There’s no thread 🤣

Thanks for stealing my response

Why no?

Do you have some limit in mind already?

Yes we do

Can you tell? And do you know what's the average size of bit so far?

I have always fancied the idea of having a limit. It teaches us brevity, and consumption becomes easier and faster. I barely ever reach the end of a long a bit, personally. At the same time, I m very open to consuming bite sized bits. Even if they don’t literally fall in my interest category

If you give me 1 huge bit of my interest, and 3 smaller bits around my interest, I would subconsciously choose the latter, I think. Trying to say that

Crisper stuff basically?

Yes! Also, interested or not — faster decision

Mujhe samjha Lekin! 🤪

Not entirely against any sort of limit. But it is a pain point at times. Whenever I am writing a tweet, I have to prioritise staying in character limit than quality of the tweet. Making a second tweet is not a great option because it will have a lot less reach. These are the issues, if all my bits can be shown to the reader at once, I don’t think so a character limit is an issue.

See this @diya

Also, most people do not want to read an entire article on social platform. And the number of consumers/readers are going to be more than the creators, brevity is important.

Agree++

Yeah, agreed.