Twitter doubles its character limit

Twitter announced yesterday it officially doubled its character limit for all users to 280 from 140.

"We are making this change after listening and observing a problem our global community was having (it wasn't easy enough to tweet!), studying data to understand how we could improve, trying it out and listening to your feedback," Twitter product manager Aliza Rosen wrote in a blog post.

Those tweeting in Japanese, Korean and Chinese will remain at 140 characters for now.

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