Twitter is about to double the size of tweets

Many Twitter users feel the "tight corset" feel the maximum of 140 characters in their "quizzes". Now the social media, which increases its number of users at a much slower pace than the one they want, has announced it will try to double the tweets of the 280 characters.

Twitter will start testing with small groups of users around the world who will be randomly selected and can "tune" up to 280 characters in different languages. Currently, according to the New York Times, the BBC and the Reuters agency, has not clarified how many weeks these tests will run and whether the new threshold will apply to all users without exception in the future.

Twitter's goal is to make it easier for users to express their messages so they can send more messages, as well as encourage new users to use it. Surveys made by Twitter confirm that many users have difficulty poking their thoughts in only 140 characters (especially if they are polyglots like US President Trab ...).

Twitter, founded in San Francisco in 2006 and has reached 328 million users worldwide (compared to about two billion Facebook), creates nervousness for investors and shareholders because it does not attract more users. The fact that in the second quarter of 2017 a loss of $ 116 million and a zero increase in users does not help things.

But there is a non-negligible fanatical portion of users who have loved Twitter just for this distinctive feature: short. They are opposed to any change that will increase the number of characters.

On the other hand, things are easier for Asians (Chinese, Japanese, Korean, etc.), whose languages ​​have alphabets that allow more thoughts to be expressed in fewer characters. Not at all, the fewest complaints about the 140-character "ceiling" come from Asia, so the new 280-character test will not involve asian users.