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See characters count even when X post is Long Form

Feature RequestTypefully in-app experience

In older versions of Typefully, if you went over the 280 letter limit while composing a post, Typefully would tell you how many letters you've gone over (e.g. -10), but now it says "L"

Can you restore the feature of telling users how many letters they've gone over?

One of the main reasons I use Typefully is to compose threads and keep each post under the 280 limit, but Typefully is now much less useful with the character count removed.

Posted by Nelson Hsieh ·
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  • Fabrizio Rinaldi changed status to Closed
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    Sep 24, 2024

  • Fabrizio Rinaldi

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    Sep 18, 2024

    Hi Nelson Hsieh, if the 𝕏 account is Premium and it supports long form, why do you need to be how much over the 280 characters limits you are? I want to learn more to understand how we can address this

    • Nelson Hsieh

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      Sep 23, 2024

      Fabrizio Rinaldi Long form is good in some cases, but I often create threads where every new tweet has a picture to go along with it, so it's sort of like a slideshow with discussion of each picture. A lot of content creators do this sort of thing and thus still prefer threads rather than long form.

      You can sort of do this "slideshow" format in long-form, but it's much more tedious to move pictures around to the right place while editing, and impossible to control how much the users see as the scroll through (i.e. they'll see description of the next picture while looking at an earlier picture)

      Does that make sense?

      Thanks for looking into this!

    • Nelson Hsieh

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      Sep 23, 2024

      Fabrizio Rinaldi Sorry, I think I messed up the initial issue.

      I didn't mean to see character count in LONG FORM; I just meant to see character count in regular 280-letter tweets: how many letters remaining as I type, and how letters I've gone over if it's too long (so I know how many letters I need to cut).

      This used to be a feature in Typefully, but has gone away…