Typical tweet shorter since character length doubled


The Twitter Inc. profile page is displayed on an Apple Inc. laptop computer in this arranged photograph taken in the Brooklyn Borough of New York, U.S., on Monday, April 23, 2018. Twitter Inc. is scheduled to release earnings figure on April 25. Photographer: Alex Flynn/Bloomberg

Twitter on Oct 30 confirmed that a year after doubling the character limit for tweets, the average length of messages fired off in English actually got a smidge shorter.

The news promised to allay concerns that raising the character limit from 140 to 280 last year would ruin Twitter's succinct comment style and lead to rants, rambles and diatribes.

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