&gt;As far as I can tell, the primary reason none of this has been implemented is that no one at Twitter has had the authority to tamper with the sacred 140-character limit<p>This is a very perceptive comment and reminds me of Steve Huffman recently making the kind of changes at Reddit that only a founder would have the guts to do.<p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;nymag.com&#x2F;daily&#x2F;intelligencer&#x2F;2015&#x2F;10&#x2F;reddit-founder-steve-huffman.html" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;nymag.com&#x2F;daily&#x2F;intelligencer&#x2F;2015&#x2F;10&#x2F;reddit-founder-...</a>