10,000 Reasons Why Twitter Will Still Be Awesome in 2016

Have you heard? There’s a rumor showing up in social media feeds everywhere that Twitter is planning to increase the character limit for tweets from 140 to 10,000. The Twittersphere is abuzz, and I can understand why: It’s hard to picture the popular microblog changing the core characteristic that defined it and even helped develop a new shorthand for communicating (hashtag, anyone?).