There is a 140 word limit for posting on Twitter since 2006.
But on Wednesday, the company has started the new 280 words limit, now all
users will be able to tweet up to 280 characters. Includes tweets made in
Bengali, Gujarati, Hindi, Kannada, Marathi and Tamil languages.
Twitter conducted a trial with select user in September in
which 140 words were removed so that they could easily express themselves on
Twitter.
Twitter will now be able to post in 280 letters instead of 140
The microblogging website said in a blog post Wednesday,
"Our goal was to ensure that we maintain pace and brevity, which makes
twitter twitter. After looking at all the data, we decided to implement this
change in all languages is."
During the first few days of testing, many people tweeted to
the full extent of 280, but after a while their behavior became normal.
Twitter's Product Manager Alija Roshan said, "We saw
that people need more than 140 character limit so that they can tweet it more
easily and often. But the important thing is that most people mostly spend 140
characters Tweeted in less than. " Only 5 percent of tweets are longer
than 140 characters and only 2 percent of tweets are more than 190 characters.
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