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Are You Happy With Loooonger? Twitter Rolls Out 280-Char Tweets
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Are You Happy With Loooonger? Twitter Rolls Out 280-Char Tweets

Testing over! 280 character tweets are actually good! Twitter officially announced that it is putting 140-character limit tweets a thing of past. #280character is the new cool. Twitter said on Tuesday, that after a global test about making the tweets two times longer, the result showed that it actually is good. The test was launched in September, with a goal to ensure "the speed and brevity" said Twitter in a blog post. "During the first few days of the test many people Tweeted the full 280 limit because it was new and novel, but soon after behavior normalized (more on this below). We saw when people needed to use more than 140 characters, they Tweeted more easily and more often. But importantly, people Tweeted below 140 most of the time and the brevity of Twitter remained," the blog q...