The only way for the others to compete with Twitter is to start innovating. Get rid of the limits. The funny thing is Twitter, the dominant leader, is moving forward and getting rid of character limits, and introducing styles and links. They’re acting like the little guy while the others, Bluesky, Mastodon, Threads, aren’t doing anything to be more useful. That whole market is stuck in 2006 and the myth that 140 chars somehow was magic. It wasn’t. It killed the web as a writer’s platform. If you want to compete with Twitter, drop your proprietary protocols, hook up to the web standards, and peer with your competitors.
I. Hate. Character. Limits.