#tweet 280 characters

Last September, Twitter announced that they were looking at increasing the character limit of tweets from 140 to 280 for languages where cramming was an issue and that a few users were already testing it out. Today, the company is happy to announce that the 280 character tweet limit for those languages, including Filipino, is now official. https://twitter.com/TwitterPH/status/928042880886702080 During the first days of the testing, Twitter revealed that a lot of people used the full 280 character limit because it was new and exciting, but after a while tweets normalized. The company also confirmed that users were able to tweet easier and more often, especially for those who needed more than 140 characters, due to the added limit. Now, with the 280 character limit, only 1% of English tweets hit the limit and users are spending less time in editing and shortening their tweets. Twitter is also assuring it's users that timelines will not be clogged with 280 character tweets as during testing only 5% of the tweets went over 140 characters and only 2% went over 190. Twitter just tested doubling up its character limit for tweets from 140 to 280 to selected users worldwide. They have noticed that a small percent of Tweets sent in Japanese have 140 characters (only 0.4%). Read more in our articles including "Twitter makes 280-character Limit Official" and "Twitter tries out 280-character tweet limit".