Twitter 280 Characters released Worldwide

At the end of September, it was reported that Twitter was testing the addition of its tweet characters from 140 characters to 280 characters. At that time only selected users could try out the new Twitter feature. But now Twitter has officially rolled out an update to its twitter limit to 280 characters for all its users worldwide!

The implementation of changing the number of character limits on Twitter is based on the existence of languages ​​in the world that require more than 140 characters to convey something according to what you want to convey. The use of 280 characters can be used for almost all languages ​​​​in the world except Japanese, Korean and Mandarin. With the addition of the Twitter user’s tweet limit, it is hoped that every user can express themselves through Twitter well.

In the previous Twitter blog, it was mentioned that the decision to increase the number of characters for tweets on Twitter was based on the fact that languages ​​in the world have different characters to represent a word. For example, Japanese, Korean and Mandarin can contain twice the information in one character compared to other languages, such as English, Portuguese, French and so on.

Shortly released globally, Twitter users were then busy trying to make tweets in 280 characters. There are those who feel happy because they can now express something through longer tweets, there are also those who feel that 140 characters is much better and concise in presenting information.

Many also think that this 280 character Twitter kills the character and characteristics of Twitter which have always been known by limiting tweet characters to only 140 characters.

Not a few later voiced their opinion on this big change in Twitter. Even the hashtag #280characters trended on Twitter shortly after Twitter officially announced the latest changes to the popular social media.

There are even Twitter users who intentionally edited tweets from Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey with 280 characters to 140 characters, like the previous Twitter character limit without losing the meaning of the tweet itself.

If you open the hashtag, you will find a collection of tweets from Twitter users who are happy or not with this change. Many think that the longer the space for tweets, the more difficult Twitter is to read, it looks chaotic and will appear longer than usual.

Many Twitter users also voiced their desire for Twitter to focus more on delivering the feature that most Twitter users demand, namely the edit button. This is because if a tweet has already been published and a letter error is found, then the tweet cannot be edited. This is much different from other social media such as Facebook and Instagram which allow users to edit the status they have uploaded.

Despite the controversy of Twitter users over this change, Twitter claims that this behavior will return to normal where users will continue to tweet up to 140 characters even though they can use 280 characters. Twitter claims that user behavior will tweet more often if given a longer tweet space. This is because with 280 characters users can cut time to edit tweets so that using Twitter will be much easier, fun and faster.

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