#twitter launches 280 character limit

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. According to Twitter's data, 9% of tweets in English reach the 140 character limit which often resulted in users spending a lot of time editing and shortening it or even just completely abandoning it. 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. Read more in our articles including "Twitter makes 280-character Limit Official" and "realme 16 Series 5G launches with limited promo bundles".