{"id":357238,"date":"2017-09-27T06:58:13","date_gmt":"2017-09-27T06:58:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=357238"},"modified":"2017-11-10T11:10:30","modified_gmt":"2017-11-10T11:10:30","slug":"twitter-trials-280-character-tweet-limit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/2017\/09\/twitter-trials-280-character-tweet-limit\/","title":{"rendered":"Twitter trials 280-character tweet limit"},"content":{"rendered":"
Social media site Twitter is trialling longer character limits to help users “easily express themselves”.<\/p>\n
Twitter currently limits tweets to 140 characters, but has doubled that to 280 characters for a small group of users.<\/p>\n
The current character limit was “a major cause of frustration” for some users, the firm said\u00a0in a blog post.<\/p>\n
The firm has been suffering from slowing growth and the shift could be one way for the firm to widen its appeal and attract new users.<\/p>\n
“Trying to cram your thoughts into a Tweet – we’ve all been there, and it’s a pain,” Twitter product manager Aliza Rosen wrote.<\/p>\n
Ms Rosen said the longer character limit was being tested in all languages bar Japanese, Chinese and Korean which she said could convey more information in a single character.<\/p>\n
“We understand since many of you have been Tweeting for years, there may be an emotional attachment to 140 characters – we felt it, too.<\/p>\n
“But we tried this, saw the power of what it will do, and fell in love with this new, still brief, constraint,” she said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Social media site Twitter is trialling longer character limits to help users “easily express themselves”. Twitter currently limits tweets to 140 characters, but has doubled that to 280 characters for a small group of users. The current character limit was “a major cause of frustration” for some users, the firm said\u00a0in a blog post. The […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[106],"tags":[1030],"yoast_head":"\n