TWITTER DOUBLES CHARACTER LIMIT FROM 140 TO 280

Many of the social networking user’s in their day today use twitter around the world for getting knowledge and gather information. However, users tweeting in Chinese, Japanese and Korean will still have the original limit of 140 words. That is because writing in those languages characters uses more space than languages like English. The company says 9% of the tweets written in English hit the limit of 140 characters as people end up spending more time editing tweets or they prefer not to send them at all.

                                                   Twitter hope that the expand limit of tweets will increase the engagement of users to tweet more, helping in increasing the user growth. Twitter has been testing the new word limit for weeks and is starting to roll it out today. The company has been slowly easing restriction to let people cram more character into a tweet. It has stopped counting polls, photos, videos and other things towards the limit.

                    Twitter character limit was created so that tweets could fit into a single text message, back when many people were using texts to receive tweets. But now, most people use twitter through its mobile app, the 140 character limit is no longer a problem for the users.