Twitter Inc said on Tuesday that users can send tweets with as many as 280 characters, double the current limit, the latest attempt by the social media company to revive anemic user growth, Bloomberg reports.
Twitter Doubles Tweet Limit to 280 characters
STEPANAKERT, NOVEMBER 8, ARTSAKHPRESS:The roll-out includes all languages except Japanese, Korean and Chinese. Twitter said those Asian languages can convey about double the amount of information in one character compared with many other languages.
The company started testing the longer tweet limit with a small group of users in September. Twitter found that people with the expanded character limit spent less time editing their tweets. Those people also got more followers, spent more time on the platform and interacted more with other users on the service, the company added.
"We saw when people needed to use more than 140 characters, they tweeted more easily and more often," Aliza Rosen, a company product manager, wrote in a blog. "More space makes it easier for people to fit thoughts in a tweet, so they could say what they want to say, and send tweets faster than before."
