Trying to express yourself on Twitter but not enough characters to do so? It's safe to say dreams do come true.
Calling all individuals with the gift of the gab; Twitter is no longer your enemy. Only available to a small group right now, Twitter has updated the miserable 140 character limit to 280. Interestingly, expressing yourself isn't a problem everywhere.
Twitter's Product Manager Aliza Rosen tells all in a new blog. “When I tweet in English, I quickly run into the 140 character limit and have to edit my Tweet down so it fits... but when Iku tweets in Japanese, he doesn’t have the same problem. He finishes sharing his thought and still has room to spare.”
Languages like Japanese, Korean and Chinese can convey about double the amount of information in one character than other languages, like English, Spanish, French and Portuguese.
“We want every person around the world to easily express themselves on Twitter, so we're doing something new: we're going to try out a longer limit, 280 characters, in languages impacted by cramming,” Aliza says.
For those of you who have been tweeting for years, we understand you may have an emotional, uncanny attachment to 140 characters. We understand Twitter is about brevity, but we wouldn't mind a few extra characters. Just saying.
