Characterizing User Reactions Towards Twitter's 280 Character Limit
N.A. Rimjhim, Roshni Chakraborty · 2018
Twitter is one of the most popular forums for information sharing and interactions among individuals. The continuous rise in the demand and usage of Twitter in various applications have led to the increase in the character limit recently. However, this decision to increase the character limit evokes a variety of research questions, regarding the actual necessity of this decision for users, utilization of the increased characters by the users, reactions of the users and whether the users across the world reacts to this change. In this paper, we intend to answer the queries and characterize the initial reactions, measure the actual usage of new character limit. The initial user reactions depict emotion diversity as well as dependence on geography. Additionally, the usage of character count post this change is highly skewed with newer character count usage present in tail of the distribution which highlights that a very small number of subsequent tweets are of high character count(ranging from 150--240 characters).