It s staying. It s a good constraint for us, and it allows for of-the-moment brevity.
— Jack Dorsey, CEO of Twitter, tells host Matt Lauer of NBC s Today show Friday morning that 140-character tweets are here to stay.
There were reports earlier this year that the company was considering raising the character limit on tweets, which prompted Dorsey to profess his love for short and sweet — by tweeting a photo of a really long text. It was a mixed message that kept people guessing, but he put that to rest today.
Apologies to the long-winded, you ll just have to keep blasting out those tweetstorms.
Still, Dorsey said on TV that the company would continue to roll out changes to try to make Twitter better, amid pressure on the San Francisco microblogging company to keep up with the Facebooks and the Googles of the world as they all go after the same slices of the online advertising pie.
Twitter, which reported its most recent quarterly earnings last month, has seen its user growth stall at 320 million monthly active users. In addition, it has seen many key executives leave recently.
But Dorsey oozed optimism today on the Today show.
Next week, Twitter celebrates the 10th anniversary of the first tweet ever sent — by Dorsey, co-founder of the company:
just setting up my twttr
— Jack (@jack) March 21, 2006
And Dorsey said on TV: We ll be here on the 20th (anniversary). We ll be here on the 30th. It s a fundamental service, and we have a lot of heart in the company, we have a lot of purpose.
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