How many characters does Twitter allow now?
How many characters does Twitter allow now?
280 characters In most cases, the text content of a Tweet can contain up to 280 characters or Unicode glyphs. Some glyphs will count as more than one character. We refer to whether a glyph counts as one or more characters as its weight.
Can you tweet with 280 characters on Twitter?
- Twitter is rolling out the long tweets feature to select accounts as a test, but Twitter user Prof9 has discovered a workaround to get longer tweets a little early. Here’s how to tweet with 280 characters instead of 140:
What was the impact of the 140 character limit on Twitter?
- Historically, only 9% of tweets hit Twitter’s 140-character limit, now it’s 1%. That said, Twitter did see some impact from the doubling of character count in terms of how people write. It found that abbreviations are used much less than before.
What was the character count on Twitter last year?
- Twitter’s decision to double its character count from 1 characters last year hasn’t dramatically changed the length of Twitter posts.
What did Jack Dorsey say about 280 character tweet?
- One particularly funny tweet on that subject even went viral. A redlined and edited version of Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey’s 280-character tweet demonstrated how it was possible to shrink the tweet’s word count down without losing its meaning. Twitter’s user base is somewhat split on whether the change would ruin Twitter.
