Nintendo yesterday released the 13.0.0 update for Switch and it's one of the biggest firmware updates there's been in a while.
It includes support for Bluetooth audio, a Switch OLED model dock update and there's even a new update available for the Joy-Con controllers. Many users are still sifting through this update to see what else it's hiding, and it seems one other discovery is the ability for users to now publish longer tweets on the hybrid system.
As noted by GameXplain, the character limit has now been increased from 140 to 280. Here's a look (thanks, Zion):
Even if you don't use Twitter, it's always nice to see improvements like this and should help anyone who wants to provide a bit more information or context when posting a game screenshot.
Have you downloaded the latest Switch firmware update yet? Did you notice this slight change? Do you even post video game screenshots to social media? Tell us down below.
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Twitter’s on Switch??
@Funneefox Kinda. You can't access Twitter natively, but you can send screenshots to Twitter
@Funneefox
Yeah, you can post screenshots and video clips from your album directly to Facebook or Twitter.
It has some basic captioning functionality too.
This is a welcome update, but as usual yet another indicator that Nintendo is permanently stuck 5-7 years behind the rest of the industry in terms of online functionality.
….Twitter….bwahahahahahahahahahahaha 🙄
@RupeeClock which is about the only thing i use twitter for.
wish i could just send them to my email instead...
Why isn't Twitter dead yet?
You can write longer messages on Commodore than Twitter on a 50.Ghz PC with 256.GB RAM.
@KiraMoonvalley Make it 26 years behind.
I sended messages on internet with my CD32 console in 1995. It were the first online console ever.
OMG, i had tweeted Nintendo so many times & asked for that. Now, i don't use Twitter much anymore, so kinda anticlimactic. Great for those who do, tho.
No thank you but OK for some I guess?
@HotGoomba Be thankful full twitter isn't on the Switch.
@JJtheTexan ps4 still doesnt support 280 characters
nice that the character limit was finally updated to Twitter's new one
It was kinda neat browsing Twitter on a DSiXL web browser but other than that I can’t see a point to posting screenshots.
@YusseiWarrior3000 I love Twitter 🤷🏽♀️
Hurray!
Now I can add even more context to my weekly SmileBASIC releases!
Number 113 will be awesome!
@Ventilator because there are platforms like medium for what you propose.
Twitter has always been about keeping everything as short as possible. As 140 characters just weren't enough in many cases, it got more, but all in all, if you don't get it, then its not for you, which is fine. I for instance don't get TikTok. But opening Twitter and immediately getting a quite nice impression about a lot of different things, news and opinions on one scrollthrough can be a quite good thing.
its also often the only way for some popular persons like game designers to talk to their fans as it doesn't really need muchtime to just write a tweet where they propably wouldn't find the time to always write a complete blogentry.
Thats why it isn't dead.
@YusseiWarrior3000
I will never understand why anyone would post a comment like this. I mean I don't like so many things but I wouldn't feel the need to state that in some random feed. Isn't it good that we twitter fanboys have something to feel happy about and you got your own stuff? I believe it is.
@YusseiWarrior3000 Yeah its a point I guess;
Maybe I'm not frequently enough around on Twitter to really feel that way but I often hear that Twitter has become a vent for passive aggressive hipsters and nerds to let it all out. Kinda sad as I have quite fine experiences so far and generally I guess I do prefer people not always being superpositive about everything like on Instagram, where you will never see anyone critisizing anything ever.
What is "Twitter"?
Finally! I was getting tired of having to transfer things to my phone to send them.
Haven't tried it yet, but I'll give it a whirl.
@valcoholic I never understood TikTok, Instagram or Snapshat.
I don't like Discord, because they ripped off IRC, and made it bloated. I still use IRC. Facebook..Boycott.
As for unsocial media. I only use Twitter 1-2 times a month to see why certain game have online issues.
As far as i seen TikTok is mainly aimed at kids, millenium kids and hipsters.
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