For those who have ever wished for longer Twitter character limits, here’s your dream come true!
Finally, Twitter has acceded to their users’ requests for a longer character limit from the usual 140, as the microblogging website is soon rolling out a test feature expanding it to 280 characters!
screenshot: Jake Zyrus on Twitter
The feature will first impact a small group of users, before gradually rolling it out to a broader range of Twitter fans.
The change comes as the website promotes efforts to boost activity in the social network, adding that the update would address “a major cause of frustration for many users”.
Product manager Aliza Rosen and software engineer Ikuhiro Ihara said in a blog post:”Trying to cram your thoughts into a tweet — we’ve all been there, and it’s a pain. We’re doing something new: we’re going to try out a longer limit, 280 characters, in languages impacted by cramming.”
“Trying to cram your thoughts into a tweet — we’ve all been there, and it’s a pain. We’re doing something new: we’re going to try out a longer limit, 280 characters, in languages impacted by cramming.”
Twitter is leaving the old 140-character limit Japanese, Chinese, and Korean because internal data showed written characters in those languages weren’t affected by the character limit.
Thoughts on this? Are you in favor of the character limit increase or not?
