Twitter reacts to 280 character tweets

CAIRO – 27 September 2017: Instead of Twitter listening to its loyal users and updating the platform so they can edit their tweets, they decided to test out the new 280 character limit for languages impacted by cramming, excluding Japanese, Chinese, and Korean.

Users have been sharing their opinion on the character increase and most of them are not happy about it.

How do you consistently fail to understand your user base so badly?

— Greg (@gwiss) September 26, 2017

Noooo, bad idea. Twitter it's about creativity and find the way to express in a short message, easy and quick to read. This is not Facebook!

— León Lecanda (@Leonlec) September 26, 2017

twitter: what do people want?
people: edit button, save gif, did I mention edit button
twitter: k gonna give them what they want #twitter280 pic.twitter.com/fK8LueJ0F8

— «ugh.» (@vivalaparrilla) September 27, 2017

everyone who has the extended character limit right now #twitter280 pic.twitter.com/2Qmj6j2Lon

— rob crypt (@robcryptx) September 27, 2017

Users: We want the ability to edit tweets.@Twitter: Okay, we’ll double the amount of available characters so you can make even more typos. https://t.co/aR7RbtphY3

— not Jony Ive (@JonyIveParody) September 26, 2017

NO!!!!!! The beauty of @Twitter is fitting sense (and nonsense) into that character space. Don't mess up the core beauty of the app 😩😩😩😩

— Denzel Mwiyeretsi (@DenzelUG) September 26, 2017

Others shared their fear that the President of the United States of America Donald Trump will abuse this to his power like he’s been doing with everything else.

You mean like Trump's clarity of thought and language?

— Cryptoberg (@ultravivo) September 26, 2017

Just because of Trump, it should remain at 140. He's creating enough damage with just 140. Imagine arming him with 280. :-P

— Bora Bali (@borabali) September 27, 2017

And then there were the journalists that went in for a copy editing war.

This is a small change, but a big move for us. 140 was an arbitrary choice based on the 160 character SMS limit. Proud of how thoughtful the team has been in solving a real problem people have when trying to tweet. And at the same time maintaining our brevity, speed, and essence! https://t.co/TuHj51MsTu

— jack (@jack) September 26, 2017

139 characters pic.twitter.com/WkfdXL8oLh

— Caitlin Kelly (@caitlin__kelly) September 26, 2017

fixed it for you pic.twitter.com/HtXsDxIrri

— eric nusbaum (@ericnus) September 26, 2017