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The "testing" is over. Twitter has officially raised the character limit to 280:
Avid tweeters such as President Trump were often forced to send multiple tweets to express their thoughts on a single subject given the constrictions of the previous limit.
Twitter explained after testing the 280-character limit that "people needed to use more than 140 characters, they Tweeted more easily and more often."
The company also preemptively addressed concerns that the structure of Twitter would change from the new character limit. "We – and many of you – were concerned that timelines may fill up with 280 character Tweets, and people with the new limit would always use up the whole space. But that didn't happen," Twitter said. "As a result, your timeline reading experience should not substantially change, you'll still see about the same amount of Tweets in your timeline."
Twitter said that the new character limit won't be accessible to Japanese, Korean or Chinese-language tweets.
Two German Twitter users managed to boldly break the limit by adding a massive URL:
Over the weekend, two German Twitter users successfully broke the existing character limit by sending a 35,000-character tweet. By formatting a message as a URL with extensive gibberish, they were able to absurdly pollute followers' timelines. Twitter soon removed it, but for a moment, all the complaints about the length of 280-character tweets seemed insignificant in the face of such a monster.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday November 08 2017, @01:41AM (5 children)
Why not 255 characters with no special allowance for multibyte? Whos asshole was the number 280 plucked out of?
(Score: 2) by c0lo on Wednesday November 08 2017, @02:12AM (4 children)
The simply doubled the asshole of the previous donor.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoFiw2jMy-0 https://soylentnews.org/~MichaelDavidCrawford
(Score: 4, Informative) by The Mighty Buzzard on Wednesday November 08 2017, @02:27AM (3 children)
Nah, come on... At the end of the day, Twitter is still a business. They just stretched the old one out with buttplugs. Fuck knows they have enough of them on their network.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday November 08 2017, @02:39AM (1 child)
Fuck knows they have enough of them on their network.
What, assholes or buttplugs?
(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday November 08 2017, @11:19AM
Yes.
(Score: 2) by c0lo on Wednesday November 08 2017, @02:56AM
In the context of 'holes', be them ass... or of other kind**, doubling usually is usually obtained by stretching/enlargement. But yes, your explanation makes sense and is more precise in details.
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** With the notable exception of black holes and potholes - they may grow by union, the total number diminishes, the individual size grows.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoFiw2jMy-0 https://soylentnews.org/~MichaelDavidCrawford