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Twitter announces character limit will be doubled to 280 characters

By Diana Stancy Correll
Published November 7, 2017 11:03pm ET
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Twitter announces character limit will be doubled to 280 characters
"Looking at all the data, we're excited to share we've achieved this goal and are rolling the change out to all languages where cramming was an issue." (iStock) | DKart

Twitter is doubling the character limit of tweets for nearly all 40 languages supported by the social media platform.

The new character limit will take effect this week and will expand tweets to 280 characters, up from 140 characters.

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