Jack Dorsey sits down with his longtime friend, Margaret Atwood GlobeArts
Canadian author Margaret Atwood hugs Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey following a fireside discussion at the Artscape Daniels Launchpad in Toronto on April 2, 2019.It was billed as a fireside chat, which held out the promise that sparks might fly.
Asked what it was about Twitter that she liked in the early days, Atwood referred to the character limit of tweets: “Number one, it was short. Number two, short is harder than you think. Short is actually a challenge.” In late 2017, Twitter expanded the number of permitted characters from 140 to 280 a tweet, and Atwood admitted, with a laugh, “I take advantage of the 280. But it’s made me sloppier, I have to say. You don’t have the discipline of 140. 140 is harsh.
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