Twitter Rolling Out 280-Character Tweets

One of Twitter's unique features is its 140-character limit. When the site was first picking up speed all those years ago, it was sold to tech-heads as a "micro-blogging" platform.

But now Twitter is upping its game. At least, its character limit game. Certain users can now blow up your timeline with massive, 280-character tweets. It all has to do with Twitter wanting people to Tweet more.

In languages like Japanese, more complex thoughts and Tweets can be made without bumping up against the limit. In fact, according to Twitter, only 0.4% of Japanese Twitter users go over the limit composing their tweets. Compare that to the 9% of English speakers who run afoul of the limit.

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