Checkout: First Time In The History Of Twitter, Twitter Finally Increases Its Characters From 140 To 280 Words

Many Twitter users have been so much bothered and have complained bitterly over the Character limits which is 140. Twitter explained how most users were frequently running into the 140 character limit. This was especially common to English speaking users, who would eventually have to split their thoughts into two or more tweets chained together as replies.



The 140 character limit is a remnant of the past back when the site had a feature to send tweets over SMS. In order to fit a tweet into the 160 character limit of a single SMS, along with some extra characters, the length of a tweet was limited to 140.

But The Good news here is that For the first time since the service debuted back in 2006, Twitter is increasing the character count of its posts (called tweets) from the original 140 characters to 280 characters. The change is being rolled out to a small group of users right now and will be available to everyone soon.

At The Left Is 140 and At Right Is 280 Characters

This issue and Limitation Of characters to 140 was not experienced by all. it is mostly for English speaking users, however, Asian users in China, Japan and Korea did not face the same problem, as the nature of their characters allowed them to express more in fewer characters. This resulted in very few of the East Asian users using up all of the 140 characters.

Due to this Twitter has decided not to roll out the 280 character limit to Chinese, Japanese and Korean users. Everyone else should be getting it soon.

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However, the SMS service has long been put to rest so apart from the differentiating factor of the 140 character limit there was no logical reason for Twitter to stick to 140 characters anymore. However, since the service is still about brevity they didn't just lift character limit altogether and decided to go with 280, which is large enough for most people to now fit their thoughts within just one tweet.

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