Twitter doubled its character limit. And Twitterati’s response to it will leave you in splits

This update is applicable for nearly everyone except users tweeting in Chinese, Korean and Japanese, as these languages use fewer characters in writing.

By: News Desk |
November 8, 2017 5:23 pm

You no longer have to struggle to fit a thought into a tweet, 140 characters to be precise. Because, Twitter has decided to do away with its iconic 140-character limit. The micro-blogging site is now officially doubling its character limit to 280.

Twitter, in its official statement, said that only 9 percent of the tweets written in English hit the 140 character limit. And people often spend more time in editing tweets before sending them or they abandon the tweet completely. Twitter believes that the revised character limit will not only encourage the people to tweet more often and but also allow them to tweet faster. This will, in turn, help the company to drive its sluggish growth.

Twitter began testing this feature back in September this year and the social networking platform is now rolling out the feature to its users globally.

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Earlier this year, the company stopped counting videos, images, GIFs, polls, and other forms of media in its character limit. It also stopped counting usernames in replies in its 140-character limit. Twitter had introduced the 140-character limit so that its tweets could fit into a single text message. However, most people these days are accessing its service via mobile app, making the limit a technical constraint.

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Meanwhile, the news has triggered a flurry of tweets, mostly hilarious, and we have chosen the best ones. Here’s what people have to say about Twitter’s new character limit:

When you realise that Twitter increases it’s character limit to #280characters. pic.twitter.com/3wjSTX7D6T

— Viral Ramesh (@viralramesh) November 8, 2017

When you wake up and see #280characters trending on twitter and u know you don’t need to delete dots and commas anymore to fit in 140 characters. pic.twitter.com/ZQ68cwbGSI

— Rehegoo Music (@RehegooMusic) November 8, 2017

My friend: So twitter gave you #280characters ?

Me: pic.twitter.com/kWjTfyGVr8

— Henry Eyo™ (@MeetHenryEyo) November 8, 2017

No need to delete commas, full stops and ! With #280characters pic.twitter.com/H4FlHHHrEw

— Retrospect Office (@Retrospect_chat) November 8, 2017

They gave you #280characters…and you lazy people still type one as 1

— Zuki (@ZukxDaKid) November 8, 2017

Thank you Twitter and about time too #280characters pic.twitter.com/KRHYiCwlJk

— Graham Hansford (@TheHonestOne65) November 8, 2017

Before: u’re
Now: you’re#280characters

— (@jssjnkng) November 8, 2017

No More having to use synonyms to condense a 142 character tweet #280characters #whatamitodowiththeother138characters pic.twitter.com/1PSQnGJNO6

— Jace Fleming (@JaceFleming) November 8, 2017

When you realise that #Twitter has increased its character limit to #280characters pic.twitter.com/4Lm2be8SEE

— oxmeinfo website (@oxme_info) November 8, 2017

So @Twitter give most users the new #280characters limit… but still won’t give users to option to edit a tweet. pic.twitter.com/oO5drtkt2l

— Rachel Bridge (@rachelbbridge) November 8, 2017

My 140 character tweets vs my 280 character tweets. #280Characters. pic.twitter.com/fWUHMwI7KZ

— Jamie (@jmehough) November 8, 2017

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