Comments on: LinkedIn Group Announcements (one little beef) http://imonlinkedinnowwhat.com/2009/03/24/linkedin-group-announcements-one-little-beef/ the blog behind the book Fri, 30 Jul 2010 23:44:45 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Sean Nelson http://imonlinkedinnowwhat.com/2009/03/24/linkedin-group-announcements-one-little-beef/comment-page-1/#comment-5507 Sean Nelson Wed, 25 Mar 2009 10:18:00 +0000 http://imonlinkedinnowwhat.com/?p=385#comment-5507 What a timely post. Last night I decided to send my first group announcement. In the headlines I added "if 140 characters is good enough for Twitter, it's good enough here...each news article will be 140 characters or less" I then wrote four short announcements/news blurbs, each 140 characters or less. On the discussion board it looks fine. Then I received the email version and it was 560 characters of text and it looked like one blurb, under a promise of "no more than 140 characters". Did LI not test their application or is this their way of trying to limit the size of announcements? They are known for being "Limit Lovers". Well, if I get any comments about exceeding the 140 characters, at least I'll know people are paying attention. What a timely post. Last night I decided to send my first group announcement. In the headlines I added “if 140 characters is good enough for Twitter, it’s good enough here…each news article will be 140 characters or less”

I then wrote four short announcements/news blurbs, each 140 characters or less. On the discussion board it looks fine.

Then I received the email version and it was 560 characters of text and it looked like one blurb, under a promise of “no more than 140 characters”.

Did LI not test their application or is this their way of trying to limit the size of announcements? They are known for being “Limit Lovers”.

Well, if I get any comments about exceeding the 140 characters, at least I’ll know people are paying attention.

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