Good News: Twitter doubles character limit from 140 to 280!

New Delhi: In most of the world, the iconic 140-character tweet is now officially a thing of the past. Twitter said today that after a global test, 280-character tweets will roll out to users around the world. Back in September, the company announced that it was testing the controversial 280 character limit to allow users to express more than was previously possible with just 140 characters.

 

Now, the social media giant has made the new limit official and is rolling it out to users worldwide. The company confirmed the new 280 character limit via a blog post. Aliza Rosen, Twitter’s Product Manager, wrote that following initial tests in September, the company found that “when people needed to use more than 140 characters, they tweeted more easily and more often.”

The testing phase was met with mixed reactions with some supporting the idea while others were of the opinion that this went against Twitter’s defining characteristic of brevity. Users also felt that upping the limit to 280 would make Twitter less readable.

The new 280 character limit aims to benefit people tweeting in languages that require more space to express their thoughts. The company said that users who tweet in languages like Japanese, Korean and Chinese are able to express more in a single character while users speaking in languages like English, Spanish and French have had to cram in their words to fit inside the limit.

This is why the company has decided to roll out the new limit only for languages that have required cramming, which means Japanese, Korean and Chinese users will not see the change.

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