Twitter To Try Giving Users 280 Characters — Whether They Want Them Or Not
The company says it wants to give users more room to express themselves. But many users worry it will rob Twitter of its microblogging soul.
Since the dawn of Twitter, the social network has been defined by its limit: 140 characters. But in a tweet that offered a glimpse of what is to come, co-founder Jack Dorsey announced that the service plans to experiment with doubling that cap.
"This is a small change, but a big move for us. 140 was an arbitrary choice based on the 160 — all in one supersize tweet.
