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Twitter is testing a much bigger limit for some time now Twitter's 140 character limit has grown by ignoring things like photos polls quoted retweets and user names twitter is now testing a 280 character limit with a small group of its user base twitter has declined to say how many people are involved in this test but did say the tests are being done in multiple languages in a blog post Twitter said that only 0.4% of all tweets and Japanese hit the 140 character limit meanwhile 9% of all tweets in English reached the limit the post mentions how in languages like Japanese Korean and Chinese the user can express themselves more clearly using one character when compared to a user writing in language like English or Spanish Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey posted one of these longer tweets saying this is a small change but a big move for us 140 was an arbitrary choice and the tweak goes on and on like that one Twitter user edited dorsey's tweet to show it was possible to convey the same message but within the old limit if you're not a part of the small group of testers there is a way to get longer tweets right now twitter user prof 9 created a tampermonkey script for it tampermonkey is a browser extension that lets you run code on websites you visit you download tampermonkey then create a new script copy and paste prop 9 script and then hit save when you go to Twitter comm you should have the ability to write longer tweets prof 9 mentions that the script stops working when you switch pages but a refresh will fix it for more coverage check out cnn.com Amaya's act on I'll see you online