{"id":21598,"date":"2017-11-08T03:40:43","date_gmt":"2017-11-08T01:40:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dev.radioislam.org.za\/wordpress\/2017\/11\/08\/twitter-is-rolling-out-280-character-tweets-worldwide\/"},"modified":"2017-11-08T03:40:43","modified_gmt":"2017-11-08T01:40:43","slug":"twitter-is-rolling-out-280-character-tweets-worldwide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radioislam.org.za\/a\/twitter-is-rolling-out-280-character-tweets-worldwide\/","title":{"rendered":"Twitter is Rolling Out 280-Character Tweets Worldwide"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Faizel Patel, Radio Islam News – 08-11-2017<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

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Social media website Twitter known for its iconic 140-character tweets, says it would roll out 280-character tweets to users across the world.<\/p>\n

Twitter says it ran a test on 280-character tweets in September that showed users spent less time editing their tweets and were less likely to abandon them.<\/p>\n

It says the expanded character limit would allow for easier expression while retaining the brevity for which the service is known.<\/p>\n

\u201cUser posting in languages including Japanese, Korean and Chinese, which do not face the issue of \u201ccramming\u201d, will continue to have a limit of 140 characters.\u201d<\/p>\n

According to Twitter, 9 per cent of English-language tweets hit the 140-character mark, compared to just 0.4 per cent of tweets sent in Japanese.<\/p>\n

Twitter did not say when it would start allowing users to post 280-character tweets.<\/p>\n

The new upgrade to Twitter also no longer displays the number of characters a user has left. Now a blue circle indicator in the bottom right corner indicates how many characters\u00a0are\u00a0 left in a tweet.<\/p>\n

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Twitter: @FaizelPatel143<\/a>\u00a0<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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