Celebrities react to Twitter doubling its character limit from 140 to 280

[brandnewinfo]

Can’t fit your Tweet into 140 characters? 🤔

We’re trying something new with a small group, and increasing the character limit to 280! Excited about the possibilities? Read our blog to find out how it all adds up. 👇https://t.co/C6hjsB9nbL
- Twitter (@Twitter) September 26, 2017
- Why? Twitter's own research shows found the current 140-character limit

Comments

[sandstorm]

Sure. It's still not a novel.

[ext_3241116]

yet

[spanishsaharaa]

My head hurt when I first read that Jack tweet. I've been on twitter for so long that my brain could not process that long of a tweet lol. tbh I hate the idea and one of the last remaining things I liked about the site was the character limit. It's still so bizarre twitter is so bad with harassment and abuse. You'd think they got a wake-up call when companies interested in buying them were apprehensive because of the harassment issues.

also lol I dread what Trump will do with a longer character limit

everyone: “hey twitter, could you do something to stop trump from starting a war on here?”

twitter: “what if we gave him…longer tweets?”
- Jamelle Bouie (@jbouie) September 26, 2017

[rexilla]

yeah that longer tweet just looks wrong

[tanglespiders]

Yeah, I skim anything longer than a sentence, so no thanks

[joaniemaloney]

yep yep.

it's just so nice and streamlined with 140 chars (discounting all the trash).

[champagnemami]

Twitter is boring to me.

[polynucleotide]

jack is so useless and should step down immediately.

[la_petite_singe]

All that needs to be said:

#280Characters? I already don’t wanna read half of what I read on here. Now I gotta read twice as much as of it?
- Jeffrey Wright (@jfreewright) September 26, 2017

(also, unrelated, but I laughed at this for about two days straight. I love her sfm.

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- christine teigen (@chrissyteigen) September 24, 2017

)

[irajaxon]

lol dead at "dot edu"