Why 300 Characters for My-Status.net?

Some people asked me about why do we let users to share notice on My-Status.net in 300 characters?
Why do we not similar with other microblogging? Just 140 characters!
Is it our lucky number? or maybe we have a reason for it?

For us, 140 characters are too short for one messages on social networking, so we want to double it.

As we know, the standard text message length in most places is 160 characters per message.
This 160 chars was found by Friedhelm Hillebrand ( Bonn, Germany) when he sat at his typewriter, tapping out random sentences and questions on a sheet of paper. As he went along, Hillebrand counted the number of letters, numbers, punctuation marks and spaces on the page. Each blurb ran on for a line or two and nearly always clocked in under 160 characters. That became Hillebrand's magic number -- and set the standard for one of today's most popular forms of digital communication: text messaging. (read more..)

Yeah, that's a nice story in the ancient time. But.. as we know, some people today have felt not enough for 160 chars of text messaging or 140 chars for one message in social networking. There are a big changes in this world, specially for networking.

Social networking should be a great place to build our network. A great place to communicate and to care with other people. And for that, we need more space to write!
More space to give our attention, more space to share what we know and more space to express ourselves.

The standard text message length in most places is 160 characters per message.
In My-Status.net we give you.. double!
2 x 160 chars = 320 characters

We reserve 20 characters for people's nickname (group's nickname), and the other 300 are all yours!"

So... Enjoy it!
Enjoy with your friends, families or colleagues... and success for your networking. :)