I especially hadn't considered the commenting on individual tweets aspect. IMO it's a bit esoteric to click on an individual tweet to read the comments, because it breaks the flow of my reading. But I can totally understand the upsides of that.
After hearing your thoughts, Twitter could improve by removing the character limit BUT:
- Showing only the first 250 characters of a post on user's feeds.
- Putting a like button next to each paragraph
- Making it easy to inline quote sections of the text in comments by building it into a context menu when you highlight text
This UX would only apply to >250 character tweets, so the micro blogging aspect is not totally lost. Perhaps a option could be added to filter out long tweets for users who prefer micro blogging.
This way you wouldn't have to laboriously chain tweets together, and you would actually gain flexibility in quoting specific sections without breaking the flow of reading.
I especially hadn't considered the commenting on individual tweets aspect. IMO it's a bit esoteric to click on an individual tweet to read the comments, because it breaks the flow of my reading. But I can totally understand the upsides of that.
After hearing your thoughts, Twitter could improve by removing the character limit BUT:
- Showing only the first 250 characters of a post on user's feeds.
- Putting a like button next to each paragraph
- Making it easy to inline quote sections of the text in comments by building it into a context menu when you highlight text
This UX would only apply to >250 character tweets, so the micro blogging aspect is not totally lost. Perhaps a option could be added to filter out long tweets for users who prefer micro blogging.
This way you wouldn't have to laboriously chain tweets together, and you would actually gain flexibility in quoting specific sections without breaking the flow of reading.