Post by Deleted on Nov 7, 2017 22:43:22 GMT
Twitter is going 280.
This is *not* a drill.
I repeat.
Twitter is going 280.
This is *not* a drill.
Twitter extends 280 character limit worldwide after successful trial
This is *not* a drill.
I repeat.
Twitter is going 280.
This is *not* a drill.
Twitter extends 280 character limit worldwide after successful trial
news.sky.com/story/twitter-extends-280-character-limit-worldwide-after-successful-trial-11117884
"Twitter is going global with 280-character tweets after it found the change did not impact the brevity and speed of most posts.
The social media giant, which has around 330m monthly active users worldwide, announced in September it was testing the longer length, double the usual 140 characters, to help prevent users having to "cram" in tweets and express themselves better.
Now the company says it is going to expand the longer length to users in all languages except Chinese, Japanese and Korean, where cramming is not a problem because they can convey more in one character.
Twitter product manager Aliza Rosen said they wanted to make sure "every person around the world could express themselves easily in a Tweet...while ensuring we keep the speed and brevity that makes Twitter, Twitter.
"Looking at all the data, we're excited to share we've achieved this goal and are rolling the change out to all languages where cramming was an issue," she added.
After an initial surge of tweets hitting the new total, the novelty of the 280 character limit soon wore off.
People "tweeted below 140 most of the time and the brevity of Twitter remained," Ms Rozen said, adding: "Only five percent of tweets sent were longer than 140 characters and only two percent were over 190 characters."
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Chris Date | CMPD
Twitter: twitter.com/cmpd_date
"Twitter is going global with 280-character tweets after it found the change did not impact the brevity and speed of most posts.
The social media giant, which has around 330m monthly active users worldwide, announced in September it was testing the longer length, double the usual 140 characters, to help prevent users having to "cram" in tweets and express themselves better.
Now the company says it is going to expand the longer length to users in all languages except Chinese, Japanese and Korean, where cramming is not a problem because they can convey more in one character.
Twitter product manager Aliza Rosen said they wanted to make sure "every person around the world could express themselves easily in a Tweet...while ensuring we keep the speed and brevity that makes Twitter, Twitter.
"Looking at all the data, we're excited to share we've achieved this goal and are rolling the change out to all languages where cramming was an issue," she added.
After an initial surge of tweets hitting the new total, the novelty of the 280 character limit soon wore off.
People "tweeted below 140 most of the time and the brevity of Twitter remained," Ms Rozen said, adding: "Only five percent of tweets sent were longer than 140 characters and only two percent were over 190 characters."
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Chris Date | CMPD
Twitter: twitter.com/cmpd_date