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As French is more prolix than English, Twitter's limit of 140 characters per tweet creates an extra squeeze.
(Twitter has helped in scrubbing away some of the tar: space limitations — a hundred and forty characters per tweet — mean that the channel is usually abbreviated down to its non-threatening initials. That usage has migrated to conversation, too — a development that Al Jazeera executives and marketers can only be grateful for).
On Twitter there is a hard limit of 140 characters per tweet, and Tumblr posts (which are primarily focused on images) rarely exceed the length of tweets.
It cut off halfway through, a reflection of the service's early years when it was simply an automated feed pumping out links and headlines from the BBC News website, breaking Twitter's limit of 140 characters per tweet.
The only downside to talking with others on Twitter was being confined to 140 characters per tweet.
And now Twitter's dealing with its own problem: Its users have for too long been restrained by a mere 140 characters per tweet.
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For example, let's take twitter, where the character limit per tweet is a mere 140 characters.
Twitter imposes a maximum character limit per tweet of 140.
The product updates haven't been absolutely transformative (like the earth-shattering bump to a 280-character limit per tweet), but since the introduction of the algorithmic timeline last year, it would seem that Twitter is getting slightly less allergic to changes to its core product — even if it alienates part of its very loud user base.
There is also talk of increasing the 140-character limit per tweet to 10,000.
At 140 characters per message, tweets are even shorter than texts.
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