The claim is a major departure for the service, which has long been known as a destination for posting short snippets of text.

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    Lol, twitter was brilliant when it was 144 character text messages. Then it got ruined by adding photos. Now it is going the rest of the way down the tubes by becoming becoming video first. Ugh.

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      Oh yea back when it needed that limit because the whole point was to text it over SMS and you could post with any SMS capable phone lol

      That was fun and unique, now it’s just…boring? Just another social media site, it’s only defining thing is it’s (declining) size and reach

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      Hey at least photos worked…

      Video playback doesn’t work half the time, and the other half the time it insists on 140p playback and then freezes.

      They’re doubling down on something they’ve been failing at for years.

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      And with this brilliant move they are going to increase bandwidth and storage expenses. There’s a reason why it’s so hard to compete with YouTube.