China's Sina Weibo Drops 140-Character Limit Before Twitter

So, when Twitter became a global microblog allowing people to pontificate in 140 characters or less, China thought they could do it a little better.

That’s how Sina Weibo was born.

With more than 250 million dedicated users, China found itself once again trying to one-up the little blue bird on the heels of Twitter discussing ridding itself of the iconic 140-character cap for a more verbose 10,000 characters.