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http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/jan/05/twitter-shares-plummet-rumor-10000-character-tweets-jack-dorsey

Twitter shares hit new low on rumored shift to 10,000-character tweets

Twitter have revealed that may shift their word count 10,000 characters.It used to be 140 characters as that was too small they want more people to tweet and have more to say and have more of an opinion and make the word count bigger.

• Twitter shares plummeted more than 2% on the news, first reported by Re/codeon Tuesday, which seemed to undermine the essential nature of the short-form social media platform. The company’s shares ended down 2.97% at $21.89, a new low.
• “We’ve spent a lot of time observing what people are doing on Twitter, and we see them taking screenshots of text and tweeting it,” Dorsey wrote, appropriately, in a screenshot of a block of text. “Instead, what if that text... was actually text? Text that could be searched. Text that could be highlighted.”
• Re/code said the feature (which could yet change to a different character count) was due to roll out this quarter. Ten thousand characters is currently the allotted maximum for direct messages on Twitter and usually breaks down to about 2,000 words.

I think that its good that twitter want to up the word count as its better for them. The audience can now tweet more when they want to and not be restricted by the word counts that they have.

http://www.theguardian.com/media/2015/dec/16/evgeny-lebedev-sounds-out-interest-in-cut-price-national-the-i

Evgeny Lebedev sounds out interest in cut-price national the i

The publisher of the i is understood to have sounded out media groups about a potential sale of the cut-price national title.

• There are market rumours that News UK, publisher of the Times and Sun, and Daily Mirror publisher Trinity Mirror have shown interest in the i. However, it is not known if either publisher has gone as far as holding official talks with ESI Media, the parent company of the i.
• One source suggests that the experience of Richard Desmond cutting the price of the Daily Star in half to 20p, which has seen the title boost sales but not cannibalise rivals the Sun and Mirror, shows that there could be a market for another title.
• The publisher’s former chief executive has described the i, which has doubled in price to 40p since launch, as strategically vital in providing a“rubber ring” around the Independent.
  The 275,000 daily sales of the i has given retail distribution scale and advertising negotiation muscle to the Independent, which sells less than 60,000 copies a day with many of those free bulk copies.

I think that its good that i want to cut down the prioces even though it doesnt make much of a difference. Its good that tehy want to have more of a audiece and have more people to be with and sell their newspaper to.