Twitter must change the 140 character limit or face death

Twitter is undergoing the largest time of turbulence and change that it’s seen in years. Ever since ex-CEO Dick Costolo left and the company has been wandering in a CEO-less desert, we’ve seen the smartest changes on the horizon in years. The latest rumors swirling are that Twitter might finally drop, or at least modify, the 140-character limit. The proposal internally is that the service will stop counting pictures, links and usernames in the 140 characters, as well as offering a new long-form option for what essentially amounts to blogging. When the news broke yesterday, lots of people reacted in confused outrage that…

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