Twitter Is Finally Letting Some Users Tweet With as Many as 280 Characters

The company says limitations will vary by language

Silicon Valley’s beloved blue bird is getting ready to tweet longer than ever before.

Few things have defined Twitter more than its 140-character limit per post. But now, the San Francisco-based company is getting ready to do the unthinkable—double the number of characters. Starting today, the platform will let a small number of people tweet with as many as 280 characters in most languages while still keeping the traditional count for character-based languages such as Japanese, Korean and Chinese.

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