Hi Steve,
I'm on Twitter since 2012 or so but I hardly use it these days.
Even though, one reason why I was never really into it, was the 140 character restriction, I'm not sure if doubling it is going to make me more active on there.
I am someone who's bad at summarizing. A man of many words but I often can't see the forest through the trees on Twitter. Too many birds on there!
I don't think the doubling of the characters will change the amount of tweeters but it will at least decrease the amount of messages that you see on your timeline. So that might actually be a plus.
Since I discovered Steemit, some months ago, I found out that blogging is more my thing. Twitter feels more and more like a promotional (or should I say spam?) tool that doesn't even promote well. I mainly use it to share my Steemit posts these days ;)
Have a great day!
140 or even 280 is not enough to really express yourself. I prefer longer-form writing. I only really use Twtr to link to Steemit posts
I agree. It is too much of a challenge and therefore, I use it for exactly the same reason these days. Ciao!