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  1. Mar 2022
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    @pratik This would be interesting to know. I recall somewhere that the reason Twitter upped it's character count—remember when it was only 140?!—was that their data showed Japanese and Chinese contained more content in the space. I sometimes wish 280 was more, but not much more. Maybe even just 400.
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    1. chrisaldrich 11 Mar 2022
      pratik This may be too late to be a Micro Camp topic but does anyone knows if any UX research exists on the ideal post length for a timeline view? Twitter has 280 chars (a remnant from SMS). I think FB truncates after 400 chars. But academic abstracts are 150-300 words (not chars).

      @pratik Mastodon caps at 500 as a default. The information density of the particular language/character set is certainly part of the calculus.

      Here's a few to start (and see their related references): - https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/How-Constraints-Affect-Content%3A-The-Case-of-Switch-Gligoric-Anderson/de77e2b6abae20a728d472744557d722499efef5 - https://www.nature.com/articles/s41599-019-0280-3

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