Faizel Patel, Radio Islam News – 08-11-2017

Social media website Twitter known for its iconic 140-character tweets, says it would roll out 280-character tweets to users across the world.

Twitter says it ran a test on 280-character tweets in September that showed users spent less time editing their tweets and were less likely to abandon them.

It says the expanded character limit would allow for easier expression while retaining the brevity for which the service is known.

“User posting in languages including Japanese, Korean and Chinese, which do not face the issue of “cramming”, will continue to have a limit of 140 characters.”

According to Twitter, 9 per cent of English-language tweets hit the 140-character mark, compared to just 0.4 per cent of tweets sent in Japanese.

Twitter did not say when it would start allowing users to post 280-character tweets.

The new upgrade to Twitter also no longer displays the number of characters a user has left. Now a blue circle indicator in the bottom right corner indicates how many characters are  left in a tweet.

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