Twitter doubled its character limit but not everyone’s happy about it
In what is what is arguably the biggest social media shake up of recent times, Twitter has doubled its 140 character limit.
Last night, the micro-blogging platform announced it is trailing a new 280 character system in a move they hope will allow users to “easily express themselves.”
A statement posted to the company's official blog page, revealed that a select group had been chosen to test out the new feature.
The increased limit will be available in all languages except Japanese, Chinese and Korean – largely due tot the fact that these languages can convey more in just one character.
Twitter Product Manager, Aliza Rosen said: "We want every person around the world to easily express themselves on Twitter, so we're doing something new: we're going to try out a longer limit, 280 characters, in languages impacted by cramming."
And while some users have welcomed the change with open arms, others aren't so sure.
NO!!!!!! The beauty of @Twitter is fitting sense (and nonsense) into that character space. Don't mess up the core beauty of the app
— Denzel Mwiyeretsi (@DenzelUG) September 26, 2017
no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no
— alan (@bookmaggot) September 26, 2017
If by 'small', you mean 'pointless', then yes. Thank you for doing this and ignoring the mass of bots, online abuse and extremism.
— Hannah Rutherford (@lomadia) September 27, 2017
The undisputed queen of Twitter even got in on the action.
Jack, I gotta say I do not like this. I do not.
— christine teigen (@chrissyteigen) September 27, 2017
I have not even heard of one person complain about character limit. who is telling you this? they suck. tell them to find a message board.
— christine teigen (@chrissyteigen) September 27, 2017
We have to admit, we agree with Chrissy – if it's not broken, don't fix it!
