Twitter considering 10k character limit for tweets


  • TECH
  • Wednesday, 27 Sep 2017

Twitter said its emphasis on brevity would never change but that it had been wondering whether people could express themselves easily enough, hurting the service's popularity..

NEW YORK: The days of Twitter Inc limiting messages to 140 characters, a signature of the social network since its launch in 2006, may be numbered. 

Twitter said on Tuesday that it would begin a test with a random sample of users allowing them to send tweets that are as long as 280 characters, double the existing cap, in most languages around the world.

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