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posted by n1 on Wednesday November 08 2017, @12:59AM   Printer-friendly
from the tl;dr dept.

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.


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  • (Score: 3, Informative) by c0lo on Wednesday November 08 2017, @02:18AM (1 child)

    by c0lo (156) Subscriber Badge on Wednesday November 08 2017, @02:18AM (#593923) Journal

    I recall reading somewhere that URLs were limited to 1024 characters.

    You memory needs a refresh, then. Here it is:

    RFC2616 - in section 3.2.1. [faqs.org]

    The HTTP protocol does not place any a priori limit on the length of
    a URI. Servers MUST be able to handle the URI of any resource they
    serve, and SHOULD be able to handle URIs of unbounded length if they
    provide GET-based forms that could generate such URIs. A server
    SHOULD return 414 (Request-URI Too Long) status if a URI is longer
    than the server can handle (see section 10.4.15).

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  • (Score: 4, Informative) by takyon on Wednesday November 08 2017, @02:31AM

    by takyon (881) <reversethis-{gro ... s} {ta} {noykat}> on Wednesday November 08 2017, @02:31AM (#593927) Journal
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