Twitter makes 280 characters the new normal
 

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. 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.

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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...

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