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Montevideo, December 19th 2024 - 22:59 UTC

Tag: Jack Dorsey Twitter CEO

  • Thursday, September 28th 2017 - 23:51 UTC

    Twitter doubles character limit to 280, except for Chinese, Japanese and Korean

    One of the first people to tweet using the 280 characters was Dorsey who prefaced the news with “this is a small change, but a big move for us”.

    Twitter on Tuesday announced that it is doubling its character limit to 280 for all languages except Japanese, Chinese and Korean. At its inception, a tweet, modeled after an SMS message, was restricted to 140 characters. Over the years, Twitter found ways to sneak in a few more characters, first by excluding any form of media and later the @reply from the character count.