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11-08-2017, 05:59 AM
Twitter makes 280 characters the new normal
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It turns out 140 characters isn't really enough after all.*
After a little more than a month of testing, Twitter is ready to officially flip the switch on its new 280-character limit (http://mashable.com/2017/09/26/twitter-character-count-280-test/). Beginning today, anyone (save for Twitter's Chinese, Japanese, and Korean-speaking users*) can cram a full paragraph's worth of characters into a single tweet.
SEE ALSO: 19 times Chrissy Teigen got hilariously angry with stuff on Twitter (http://mashable.com/2017/11/04/chrissy-teigen-funny-angry-tweets/)
The update, which will roll out across the service on Tuesday, upends what's been one of Twitter's most iconic features for more than a decade, though the company insists that despite the increased character count it's still committed to "the speed and brevity that makes Twitter, Twitter." Read more... (http://mashable.com/2017/11/07/twitter-280-character-limit-expansion/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial)
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It turns out 140 characters isn't really enough after all.*
After a little more than a month of testing, Twitter is ready to officially flip the switch on its new 280-character limit (http://mashable.com/2017/09/26/twitter-character-count-280-test/). Beginning today, anyone (save for Twitter's Chinese, Japanese, and Korean-speaking users*) can cram a full paragraph's worth of characters into a single tweet.
SEE ALSO: 19 times Chrissy Teigen got hilariously angry with stuff on Twitter (http://mashable.com/2017/11/04/chrissy-teigen-funny-angry-tweets/)
The update, which will roll out across the service on Tuesday, upends what's been one of Twitter's most iconic features for more than a decade, though the company insists that despite the increased character count it's still committed to "the speed and brevity that makes Twitter, Twitter." Read more... (http://mashable.com/2017/11/07/twitter-280-character-limit-expansion/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial)
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