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Twitter testing 280 character limit

article published on 27 September, 2017

Twitter has announced that it is testing a 280 character limit for tweets for selected users, doubling the ever-present 140 character limit. Explaining the trial, Twitter product manager Aliza Rosen said that for some languages, 140-characters is a much more limiting factor than others, comparing English to Japanese and how the latter can convey more information in one character. "We ... [ read the full article ]

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hearme0
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_ 		27. September 2017 @ 12:13 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
Congrats Twitter for doing something that should have been done long ago. As for 'testing' it........nonsense........JUST IMPLEMENT IT!

I love how these shit tech giants that seriously wouldn't be missed an iota if they up and vanished, continue to pat themselves on their own backs.

No wonder Twitter is worthless and unable to turn a profit.


All-in-all, social media just sucks and while it has SOME benefits to some people, the vast majority can do without their "need" to type nonsense info about what you're doing in less than 140 or now...280 characters.
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