Twitter to test longer tweets

September 27, 2017 7:01

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Twitter has announced that it has started tests which could see the end of the service’s long-standing 140 character limit.

In a blog post this morning, the company explained some users’ accounts will allow double the existing limit in an experiment covering various European languages including English, German and Spanish.

Co-authored by Aliza Rosen, product manager, and Ikuhiro Ihara, senior software engineer, the post explains Twitter found European languages are affected by the 140 character limit more than the Asian double-byte character set (DBCS).

Paul Wallbank

Paul Wallbank was news editor at Mumbrella between June 2017 and June 2019. Previously he's covered business and technology issues for outlets ranging from The Australian and Sydney Morning Herald to the ABC and Business Spectator.

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2 COMMENTS

Alun Probert 27 Sep 17

One day soon digital media leaders might finally realise that you can’t just shoehorn advertising into social media like you used to be able to with newspapers and magazines, in the era when information was scarce and advertising acted like useful editorial.

In the meantime, seems like we’re consigned to more announcements about “appealing to younger users” and creating new features for advertisers that users will continue to completely ignore.

Sometimes less is more. #justsaying

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Warren Amster 27 Sep 17

Long trump rants

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