Twitter testing 280-character tweets, double the current max

Twitter is considering doubling the amount of characters a user can make per post.

The increase to 280 characters from 140 characters is rolling out to a "small group" of users who tweet in languages that could have issues fitting in the smaller space.

"We understand since many of you have been tweeting for years, there may be an emotional attachment to 140 characters – we felt it, too," Twitter product manager Aliza Rosen wrote in a blog post. "But we tried this, saw the power of what it will do, and fell in love with this new, still brief, constraint."

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