Twitter is a verbal knife fight, says addicted Big Smile, No Teeth columnist Jason Godfrey


Talk show host Stephen Colbert's sarcastic tweets in reaction to Twitter allowing more characters to be used. Photo: Screen capture

This week Twitter announced that it had doubled it’s 140 character limit to 240 for all it’s users. The social media site had previously raised the character limit for certain users but has now expanded the ability for longer tweets to everyone.

And perhaps the right word to express my feeling at this point is: meh.

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