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Need more room? Twitter testing 280-character limit

By Associated Press
Published: September 26, 2017, 4:00pm

NEW YORK — Twitter is testing a 280-character limit for tweets, doubling the length restriction that’s been in place since the company’s founding 11 years ago.

The test is being made available to a small subset of users and applies to languages other than Japanese, Korean, and Chinese. In those languages, Twitter notes, you can convey about double the amount of information in one character as you can in others.

The original 140-character limit was created so tweets would fit in a single text message back when people used Twitter that way. But most people now use Twitter through its mobile app, where there isn’t the same technical constraint.

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