Twitter to roll out 280-character tweets worldwide

FAN Editor

November 7, 2017

(Reuters) – Microblogging website Twitter Inc <TWTR.N>, known for its iconic 140-character tweets, said on Tuesday it would roll out 280-character tweets to users across the world.

Twitter said it ran a test on 280-character tweets in September that showed users spent less time editing their tweets and were less likely to abandon them. (http://bit.ly/2zkXZIj)

User posting in languages including Japanese, Korean and Chinese, which do not face the issue of “cramming”, will continue to have a limit of 140 characters, Twitter said.

The company did not say when it would start allowing users to post 280-character tweets.

(Reporting by Yashaswini Swamynathan in Bengaluru; Editing by Savio D’Souza)

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