Let's remember why Jack Dorsey was fired as Twitter's CEO
On the eve of Jack Dorsey's official return the CEO role at Twitter (per Recode’s report), it's worth taking a look at why he was pushed out of the company he co-founded, alongside Evan Williams, Biz Stone and Noah Glass, in 2006.
As Twitter (TWTR) took off, Dorsey was initially put in charge of the company. He oversaw the company's many, many #Failwhale crashes. In Hatching Twitter, Nick Bilton’s book about Twitter's early days, Dorsey is painted as a bad manager who took credit for everything, handled criticism poorly, and didn't know how to manage. It's worth noting, amid rumors that Twitter will increase its famous 140-character constraint: 140 characters was Dorsey's idea.
Dorsey's focus on outside hobbies, including sewing and drawing classes, and his frequent party appearances annoyed his co-workers. His lack of communication to investors and apparent six-figure text message bills annoyed the board. He had frequent arguments with Williams, who had provided the initial funding for Twitter. Oh, and while he was in charge, there was no backup of Twitter's database.
https://fortune.com/2015/09/30/jack-dorsey-twitter-ceo-fired/
Interseting.
Not really, it was and is the limit of SMS text messaging. Twitter started out using SMS as a primary mechanism for posting tweets, and so the 140 char limit was unavoidable.
SMS doubled that limit for certain special usages, but 140 remains a hard limit for most aspects of SMS, and unless Twitter decides to no longer allow SMS tweets, the 140-char limit will remain, Dorsey or no Dorsey.
Oh, if only that had been known ... lol