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Twitter has always been limited to 140 characters, which is a holdover from its days as an SMS service. However, earlier this year Twitter started making noise about potentially raising that limit. It began testing an expanded 280 character limit in September, and now that feature is rolling out to everyone. Worried? Twitter says don't sweat it.


According to Twitter, fears that a 280 character limit would ruin the brevity of Twitter are unfounded. Its evidence: this graph.



About 9% of tweets bump up against the 140 character limit, but of course, that doesn't include all the tweets that are never sent because people can't say what they want. After enabling 280 characters on a small number of s, Twitter says that only 1% of people hit the limit. It was also rare for people to get anywhere near 280 characters—only 2% of Tweets were over 190 characters. Tweets with the 280 limit also got more likes and retweets than tweets limited to 140 characters.



The new 280 character limit is already hitting the official app, web interface, and Tweetdeck for s in most countries. Instead of a character count, you have a small circle that fills up as you type. However, Japanese, Korean, and Chinese will continue to have the 140 character limit because space is not an issue in these more dense languages. Third-party apps were not able to integrate longer tweets during the test, but presumably that will be an option soon.

http://www.androidpolice.com/2017/11/07/twitter-rolling-280-character-limit-everyone/

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Ah!!!!
Finally.
Next should be Nairaland, because nothing has changed (except from one wicked MOD to another) since it was founded.

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more rubbish for people to type .

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Celcius:
Ah!!!!
Finally.
Next should be Nairaland, because nothing has changed (except from one wicked MOD to another) since it was founded.

U no get chill thus early morning

Hurray for those who known how to use it

Celcius:
Ah!!!!
Finally.
Next should be Nairaland, because nothing has changed (except from one wicked MOD to another) since it was founded.

If I say you nor well, nor ask me why? Lala and his cohorts must hear this

Now we'll get to hear more lengthy stories; like that of a madam driving a black highlander

This is an opportunity to tell us how it started & ended.

Bullies can now insult people 140 characters more...

Celcius:
Ah!!!!
Finally.
Next should be Nairaland, because nothing has changed (except from one wicked MOD to another) since it was founded.

Lol . It's disrespectful to mention nairaland and twitter in the same sentence sef. Twitter doesn't use nairaland buh nairaland uses twitter. Seun comanbeatme

As in, rubbish galore don start..

nwaokeleme100:
This is good competition, Instagram watch your back!!!

Go school you noo go. What concerns Instagram with 280 twitter characters now!

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nwaokeleme100:
This is good competition, Instagram watch your back!!!

Watch back for what? B.S.

Celcius:
Ah!!!!
Finally.
Next should be Nairaland, because nothing has changed (except from one wicked MOD to another) since it was founded.

Watin you want make Nairaland do for you?

The last time I checked, there is no limit to how many characters you can comment on nairaland.


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Lemonade01:
Go school you noo go. What concerns Instagram with 280 twitter characters now!

Lol.. The nwaokeleme100 dude Is a foolish village man

for more noise and reacting

Twitter catch is the 140 characters, we are not writing essay that we need 280 letters, there is art in delivering message in 140 characters.

Most of the 280 character twits I read are boring, 140 is concise and hitting the hammer

OKAY NAW

Nice one