It's Official: Twitter's 280-Character Limit Is Rolling Out to Almost All Users

In September, Twitter (NYSE: TWTR) began testing out an expanded 280-character limit, twice as long as the long-standing 140-character limit, in most languages other than ones like Chinese, Japanese, and Korean, where entire words can be captured in single characters. Investors celebrated the announcement by sending shares higher on the hopes that the change could improve usability and appeal to wider audiences if rolled out more broadly.

Twitter announced yesterday that in order to mitigate the issue of "cramming" -- where users try and sometimes struggle to fit all of their thoughts into 140 characters -- it is officially rolling out the 280-character limit to the rest of Twitter's user base, still excluding the aforementioned Asian languages. 

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