Yes, Twitter Is Rolling Out 280-Character Tweets to Nearly All Users

Except for Japanese, Korean and Chinese languages

R.I.P. 140-character tweets. After beginning to test out 280-character tweets in September, Twitter is rolling out tweets with double the number of characters for (almost) all users.

The micro-blogging platform is rolling out the changes to all languages except for Korean, Chinese and Japanese. The original 140-character limit will remain intact with tweets written in those three languages because those tweets tend to be shorter, per Twitter.

“We are making this change after listening and observing a problem our global community was having—it wasn’t easy enough to tweet—studying data to understand how we could improve, trying it out and listening to your feedback,” wrote Aliza Rosen, product manager at Twitter, in a blog

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