From PC Mag: "It's staying," Twitter chief Jack Dorsey said last year of the platform's 140-character limit. Well, it appears the company has had a change of heart, as it's now testing a 280-character limit.
The expanded tweet format is "only available to a small group right now," according to product manager Aliza Rosen. "What matters most is that this works for our community—we will be collecting data and gathering feedback along the way."
Why the change? Rozen pointed to languages that allow people to express themselves in fewer characters. With "languages like Japanese, Korean, and Chinese you can convey about double the amount of information in one character as you can in many other languages, like English, Spanish, Portuguese, or French," Rozen wrote in a blog post.
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