As Twitter tests 280-character tweets — doubling the previous 140-character limit – two German users have successfully broke the existing character limit by…
As Twitter tests 280-character tweets — doubling the previous 140-character limit – two German users have successfully broke the existing character limit by sending a massive 35,000-character tweet. According to an Engadget report, the duo formatted a gibberish message as a URL and posted it on Twitter.
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A Twitter spokesperson confirmed that the exploit has been fixed. Currently, the 280-character tweet facility is available to a small group of its 328 million users but it would soon be rolled out globally, Twitter has said in a blog post. According to Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey, this is a small change, but a big move for them.
Last year, there were reports that the micro-blogging site may go for 10,000-character tweets. But Dorsey denied those reports, saying the 140-character limit is “a beautiful constraint” and that Twitter “will never lose that feeling”.
The 140-character limit has been around as long as Twitter has been and has become part of the product’s personality.
