Thunderstorm App Frees You From Twitter's 140-Character Limits

The iPhone app Thunderstorm lets users create "tweetstorms" with an easy-to-use interface.

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Twitter’s 140-character limit has a special place in the hearts of Twitter users everywhere, except for the likes of Marc Andreessen. The Silicon Valley entrepreneur has a style of tweeting in long strings of texts typically reserved for long-form journalism, which has garnered him plenty of negative attention.

A tweetstorm is a series of 5-15 tweets that are sent in quick succession — creating mini-essays on Twitter and bypassing the 140-character limit.

There are websites and web apps dedicated to his “art” of showering followers with the never-ending flow of tweets.

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