Twitter Rolls Out Expanded 280 Character Tweet Limit Worldwide

[TIOATIOA]

RIP Twitter

 

[WWPD]

Make it unlimited, the stupidity on Twitter is already infinite.

 

[riverfreak]

That wasn't their reasoning at all, they allowed a subset of accounts to have 280 characters for several weeks. During that time they did quantitive analysis that showed only 5% of tweets sent by those accounts went over 140 characters and 1% went over 190 characters. That's why they think most people won't use 280 characters. However increasing the number of characters allowed alleviates a problem where 9% of all tweets in English ran up against the 140 character limit.

Noted. But did they did choose a random subset of users? Seemed more like “influencers” and “twitterati”

 

[AlliFlowers]

Now I need a Tweetbot update so that I can take advantage of all those extra characters!

 

[infinitedreams]

The character count got removed and has been replaced with a circle, when you’re running out of characters then it shows the number of characters left.

 

[BugeyeSTI]

Now they need to rename Twitter to Cackle...

 

[whsbuss]

Twitter for Mac v4.3.2 still has 140 characters - figures.

 

[centauratlas]

And yet macOS is still limiting it to 140 characters in Safari etc.

 

[JackieInCo]

The Twitter app on my Mac is stuck at 140. Been waiting for an update and it never comes in the app store.