Twitter to test expanding character limit per tweet

The initial expansion will be rolled out to a ‘small group’ of users who tweet in languages which make it difficult to fit messages into the allotted character limit

Photo: REUTERS/Kacper Pempel

By Giovanni Bruno

Twitter will begin testing expanding the allotted length per tweet to 280 characters from 140 characters, the social media company wrote in a blog post.

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