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Twitter has decided to double its character count for the first time since its inception in 2005. Twitter has now increased the number of character count for its tweets from 140 to 280 to enable users express themselves more in a single post (tweet) instead of having to truncate the tweets and chain it into replies.
In its blog post, Twitter explained how most users were frequently running into the 140 character limit. This was especially common to English speaking users, who would eventually have to split their thoughts into two or more tweets chained together as replies.
In comparison, however, Asian users in China, Japan and Korea did not face the same problem, as the nature of their characters allowed them to express more in fewer characters. This resulted in very few of the East Asian users using up all of the 140 characters.
Because of this, Twitter has decided not to roll out the 280 character limit to Chinese, Japanese and Korean users. Everyone else should be getting it soon.
It remains to be seen how users take advantage of this new limit. Of course, everyone will do it differently, some in ways that may not be very nice.
Twitter famously has an online harassment problem, which the company continues to ignore and it may have just given an even bigger weapon in the hands of the miscreants. Still, for the vast majority of the users who aren't terrible, this will only be a good thing.
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The change is being rolled out to a small group of users right now and will be available to everyone soon.
Meanwhile, there is still no way to edit tweets after tweeting, so we hope to see Twitter implement that in the nearest feature.
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