Tweeting in 280 Characters? Now You Can Do It, Too

Twitter is doubling the length of tweets to 280 characters for nearly all of its users. Credit: Bryan Thomas for The New York Times

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The first sentence of this article about Twitter was written in 140 characters, so we can show what has long been the top length of a tweet.

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But Twitter is making a change to the form of a tweet. On Tuesday, the company said nearly all of its 330 million users would now be able to tweet with 280 characters, the exact total in this paragraph. Twitter has said that the expanded limit will encourage people to tweet more.

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In early tests, Twitter found that people with 280 characters saw more likes, retweets and engagement, and spent more time on Twitter, than they had previously. Moreover, despite an initial bump in longer tweets, only 5 percent of tweets exceeded 140 characters, the company said.

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