Twitter Finally Rolls Out 280-Character Tweets And Not Everyone Is Stoked

Did you struggle to put your thoughts in just 140 characters? Maybe one extra character or a word would have helped. Well, fret not for Twitter has given users 140 characters more to work with. The micro-blogging site rolled out the supersized version of tweets with 280 characters after testing it for two months. The company, which has been struggling to reach profitability and lagging behind rival social media platforms, doubled its character limit for tweets in a move to attract more users. Users will have access to 280 characters in all languages except Japanese, Korean and Chinese.

With 280 characters to spare, many said brevity will lose out. The company, though, thinks otherwise.

Twitter product manager Aliza Rosen, in a blog post, said that data during the testing phase indicated that users stuck to concise tweets even when they had the option of 280 characters.

While the company said the new limit was introduced for people to express themselves "easily in a tweet", some weren't too kicked about the extra 140 characters.
 

I now have 280 characters at my disposal, 140 too many. Twitter needs to be short & to the point. If I want to read more than two lines, I'll read a book.#280characters

— America Matters (@tpcjk) November 8, 2017

Omg noooooooo!!
If i wanted to read a lot of BS I would go to Facebook.
140 characters were enough Twitter .

#280characters

— Y A H E L (@YahelNYC) November 8, 2017

The time for verbose has come.

I will forever miss brevity.

Goodbye 140. I had such a great time.#280Characters

— Badass RDO (@RDObserver) November 8, 2017

Hmm my last tweet was 272 characters. Now seems I may be back to 140. Ah well, the Twitter giveth and the Twitter taketh. #280Characters?

— Quaker Nana (@QuakerNana) November 8, 2017

I don't want #280Characters. 140 kept me creative and made me make every letter count.

— Rhymes With "Vader" (@MitchellBader) November 8, 2017

New demands for an 'edit button' came up
 

Dear Twitter,

We need an edit button next.
We need an edit button next.
We need an edit button next.
We need an edit button next.
We need an edit button next.
We need an edit button next.
We need an edit button next.
We need an edit button next. #280characters

— Kitoy (@Kitoyyyy) November 8, 2017

#280characters is good BUT

WE NEED AN EDIT TWEET OPTION
WE NEED AN EDIT TWEET OPTION
WE NEED AN EDIT TWEET OPTION
WE NEED AN EDIT TWEET OPTION
WE NEED AN EDIT TWEET OPTION
WE NEED AN EDIT TWEET OPTION
WE NEED AN EDIT TWEET OPTION
WE NEED AN EDIT TWEET OPTION

— Ken Talabis (@wktalabis) November 8, 2017

#280characters but still no edit button?! pic.twitter.com/xPveWC6zZI

— Rachelbear (@totally_sassyy) November 8, 2017

Dear twitter,

140 characters is not enough and please, give us an edit button.#280characters

— Tris (@triscalica) November 8, 2017

With great power, comes great responsibility - is what many pointed out about the doubled up character limit.
 

Now that we all have #280Characters, we expect your Twitter complaints about specific calls against your favorite teams to be calm, well-reasoned, and full of complete sentences. Thanks in advance for this positive step forward in basketball officiating-related discourse."

— NBA Referees (@OfficialNBARefs) November 7, 2017

Remember not only to say the right thing in the right place, but far more difficult still, to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment.
- Ben Franklin #280Characters

Use those extra characters wisely, Quakers.

— Penn (@Penn) November 8, 2017

And the usual spread of jokes, including this by politician Omar Abdullah who knows what to do with the extra characters.
 

Everyone has got 280 characters now. I'm not sure what to do with all the extra words I can play around with. There was something challenging about putting my silly thoughts in to short, pithy tweets. Now I get to drive you all crazy as I expand short sentences to full paragraphs

— Omar Abdullah (@OmarAbdullah) November 8, 2017

2095. Twitter's character limit is 8 billion. Generations live & die toiling to write a single tweet. Jack Dorsey's laugher haunts the wind. #280characters

— Lyel*CSA (@FallahLyel) November 8, 2017

I got #280characters in my hands but only #140characters in MY HEART! pic.twitter.com/FyhteQ27r7

— Biggest Mikey (@Biggest_Mikey) November 8, 2017

Back in the paleolithic era we only needed 140 characters to tell you that fad diets cure the cancer.#280Characters

— Paleo Pete Evans (@peteevansnot) November 8, 2017

when you can't think of anything to write with #280characters pic.twitter.com/pJ2NZOeHk2

— festive (@nadearaxc) November 8, 2017

Those who still haven't got #280characters should try linking their Twitter account with their Aadhar card.

— IRONY MAN (@Pun_Starr) November 8, 2017

And perhaps the next few days would look like this
 

This will be the next few days on Twitter until everyone figures out how to use #280characters beneficially. pic.twitter.com/OX2ateXzBo

— n picwicz (@NatePickowicz) November 8, 2017

What do you think of the new character limit?