Social sharing site Twitter announced that the test for the increase of the number of characters from 140 to 280 has begun.
According to the statement made by the social media network Twitter's corporate account, the upper limit of 140 characters in shares from English, Spanish, Portuguese, and French languages which become difficult from time to time for the users.
In order for Twitter users to express themselves better, it is stated that the upper limit of the character to be added to 280 in languages such as English, where the Latin alphabet is used. This is because in languages like Japanese, Korean, and Chinese users can convey about double the amount of information in one character as they can in many other languages, like English, Spanish, Portuguese, or French.
In the announced statement that a small group could benefit from the 280-character upper limit in the first stage, there was no information about when the change would be open to all users.
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