After expanding its character limit to only a subset of users last month, we all can now enjoy the freedom and whimsy of longer Twitter posts. Soon, when you post on the platform, you can use up to 280 characters, instead of 140.
While you may not see your elongated Twitter posting capabilities, the platform is rolling this out feature in the “coming days,” according to Politico.
For a small number of tweeters (roughly 9 percent, according to Twitter’s own data), that persistent 140 character count limit has been a thorn in their side. Twitter users must instead figure out how to condense a longer thought to meet that limit, or go on a tweetstorm, posting 140 character or fewer thoughts one after another in rapid succession. The former requires editing and creativity; the latter requires only that the tweeter not care about how much space their tweets take up in their followers’ feeds.
Now that’s all a part of the past—or it should be.
Politico reports that political operatives in D.C. are “abuzz” about the 280-character count change. Now that they can get longer messages across without truncating them to pieces, it’s likely we’ll see even more politicians and government leaders use Twitter as their platform of choice to make notable announcements. Twitter, are you sure you’ve made the right decision?
H/T Politico
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