ByRachel Kaser
Rachel Kaser is a writer and former game critic from Central Texas.
Do you find the new 280-character limit on Twitterannoying and excessive? Good news: first, youre not alone, and second, theres already a Chrome extension for you.
Block280does just what it says: collapses any tweet longer than 140 characters so you dont have to read them. You can tap to reopen them if you change your mind.
Conor Browne, the creator of the app, said on the extensionsProduct Hunt pagethat he was inspired by complaints he saw online about the character limit. Hes also the person behind thePokemon NO! an extensionthat blocked mention of pocket monsters during the height of the Pokemon GO craze, and aGame of Thrones blockerwhich has similar effects quite the curmudgeons corner (says a curmudgeon appreciatively).
Confusingly, one review of the extension on PH called it immature and petty at best, and pathological at worst. The reviewer went on to say:
Okay you web development geniuses out there: make a browser extension for long tweeters, which automatically blocks anyone nursing on this Block280 pacifier, when their binky gets in the way of a long tweet.
I honestly had no idea anyone felt that strongly about 280 tweets one way or another. I thought this was just a solution for those who dont want to completely clutter up their feed, not an offence against more long-winded Twitter denizens.
This article was previously published on The Next Web.
Featured image source:Sole Treadmill viaVisual hunt/CC BY
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