Google’s Constant Innovation Strategy To Keep Google Maps Relevant 🗺️
Jen Fitzpatrick, Senior Vice President Core Systems & Experiences at Google quotes,
In 2005, we set out to map the world. Since then we have helped billions of people get from point A to point B with confidence. In the beginning, we focused on answering the question: “How do I get from here to there?”
Over time, our mission has expanded from helping you navigate to also helping you discover the best places to go and things to do once you’re there. We’re reflecting on how the definition of what a map can do has broadened, and how machine learning will propel us forward from here.
Time To Read: 13 Minutes
Published: April 2023
Link: Google’s Constant Innovation Strategy To Keep Google Maps Relevant 🗺️
Back in 2006, Twitter launched as a microblogging website, allowing users to post tweets up to 140 characters. This brevity was key to the platform’s success because it set Twitter apart from the long-form blogging platforms that were the norm of the day. And the short posts ensured users would consume more content from more creators.
The 140-character limit stuck around for over a decade before receiving a modest raise to 280 characters in 2017. But as of today, Elon Musk’s Twitter has now upped that limit again—if you’re a Twitter Blue subscriber, anyway.
That new limit? 10,000 characters.
The official @TwitterWrite made the 10,000-character announcement in a relatively short tweet, announcing that in addition to the insane amount of characters, Twitter Blue users can now also italicize and bold characters as well. (What, no option for Comic Sans?)
Read More: Here’s what a 10,000-character Twitter Blue tweet looks like 🐦
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