Twitter has doubled the character limit for tweets from 140 to 280 for all English-language users. Trials in year 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".
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".