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Twitter expands its limits back in late September Twitter said that it would test out a 280 character limit for tweets with a limited amount of users this would double Twitter's original limit of 140 characters when the company announced the test and mentioned that with languages like Japanese Korean and Chinese more information could be conveyed in less characters Twitter said the languages outside of those three were impacted by cramming the company cited data showing 9% of tweets in English reached the limit only 0.4% of tweets sent in Japanese reached a hundred and forty characters now the company is rolling out the 280 character limit for pretty much everybody Twitter said it kept a close eye on how many long tweets arose out of the test two percent were over 190 characters five percent were over 140 characters the company claims that your timeline reading experience should not substantially change and you'll see about the same amount of tweets in your timeline Twitter also said users who had the 280 character limits during the experimental period received more engagement and gained more followers tweets written in Japanese Korean and Chinese will retain the older 140 character limit will this change cause a backlash probably for more coverage check out cnet.com Amaya's act on I'll see you online