Twitter has doubled the character limit for tweets from 140 to 150 for all English - language users . Trials in Twitter saw users using the character limit fall from 9 % to 1 % , though only 2 % of the test group sent out tweets using more than 190 characters . Aliza Rosen , product manager at Twitter , said the change would mean users spent less time on editing and added : " more space makes it easier for users to express thoughts in a tweet " .
Twitter has doubled the character limit for tweets from 140 to 280 for all English-language users. Trials in September saw users hitting the character limit fall from 9% to 1%, though only 2% of the test group sent out tweets using more than 190 characters. Aliza Rosen, product manager at Twitter, said the change would mean people spent less time on editing and added: "more space makes it easier for people to fit thoughts in a tweet".