The micro-blogging site Twitter has finally expanded the character limit to its users from 140 to 280 on 8 November. Twitter had decided this step before doing an experiment of the same in September to check whether by expanding the word limit the Twitterati would have a better experience.
From the moment Twitter was launch on 21 march in 2006, the micro-blogging site had limited its character to its users by 140 in every tweet. The micro-blogging site has expanded its number of character in every language except Chinese, Japanese and Korean. The reason why Twitter had not expanded its word limit in these languages because a single character in these languages can express many thoughts.
The reaction to Twitter's rollout has been both positive and negative, here is the reaction:
People hated being restrained to only 140 characters. now they're complaining twitter doubled it? come on.. #twitter280 pic.twitter.com/Vv6lMYePKl
— Muscovite The Great (@Madame_Kunta) November 8, 2017
Not unlike #HarveyWeinsten exposing himself too much. Put that away! #twitter280
— Diana (@iwork24) November 8, 2017
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— Mel (@Melyss95) November 8, 2017
140 characters is all what the people want, give the people what they want. Redundancy will be the order of the day with #twitter280 and we can't be reading same thing twice in one sentence.
— Nkhensani Mahwayi (@nkhensanimahway) November 8, 2017
#twitter280 I love it n now free to express with a solid punch of 280 strong words, never ever short of words now. Luv u @Twitter @TwitterSupport
— parth pant (@drparthpant) November 8, 2017
Oh shit! here we go! So much space in one tweet! Amazing! Also love the new circle that shows you how much you have left. Look. I am still a half way through! It is amazing! Will it improve our lives? I sure hope so. Sick of short attention spans. #twitter280
— emlEugene 📚💣💀 (@emlEugene) November 8, 2017
RT if you FINALLY got your #280characters!
— Kᴀʀᴀ (@QuirkySupergirl) November 8, 2017
To you, #Twitter! pic.twitter.com/CCd6R9c5Kp
#280characters is awesome!
— Jason ن 🇺🇸 (@jasonmn) November 8, 2017
So how about that EDIT BUTTON!
So how about that EDIT BUTTON!
So how about that EDIT BUTTON!
So how about that EDIT BUTTON!
So how about that EDIT BUTTON!
So how about that EDIT BUTTON!
So how about that EDIT BUTTON!
So how about that EDIT BUTTON!
Omg noooooooo!!
— Y A H E L (@YahelNYC) November 8, 2017
If i wanted to read a lot of BS I would go to Facebook.
140 characters were enough Twitter .
🐦👋🏼🤨 😝#280characters