People Who Got Twitter's 280-Character Limit Are Going A Bit Nuts

Brevity will no longer be the soul of wit, if Twitter sees through its plan to increase its legendary 140-character limit. Yesterday, the micro-blogging site doubled the limit to 280 characters for a some select users around the world to test the success of the move. In a blogpost explaining this strategic shift, Twitter's product manager, Aliza Rosen, and senior software engineer, Ikuhiro Ihara, wrote, "Our research shows us that the character limit is a major cause of frustration for people Tweeting in English, but it is not for those Tweeting in Japanese. Also, in all markets, when people don't have to cram their thoughts into 140 characters and actually have some to spare, we see more people Tweeting – which is awesome!"

Not surprisingly, Twitter users across the world had much to say about Twitter's bold decision, with an equal amount of cheering on and backlash. But regardless of whether they approved of the 280-character limit or hated the thought of losing the very essence of what made Twitter, Twitter, the few that were chosen to be a part of the test roll-out went a little nuts using the feature.

Ever since the announcement yesterday, the test group users have been using the increased character limit to say all kinds of hilarious, nonsensical, musical, and even activistic things.

Here are some of our favourites:

Twitter (140 characters): "Hey guys, I'm Vijay"

Twitter (280 characters): "Vijay Dinanath Chauhan, poora naam. Baap ka naam Dinanath Chauhan. Maa ka naam Suhasini Chauhan. Gaon Mandwa. Umar 36 saal, 9 mahina, 8 din, aye aur yeh solva ghanta chaalu hai."

— Akshar (@AksharPathak) September 27, 2017

Oh shit I was selected as one of the special ones to tweet in 280 characters. HAHAHA suck it losers, I feel like God right now. Wait, I'm not done, I would also like to say that all these words I'm typing right now are useless and I wasted them just because I CAN. These too, lmao

— Big Cat (@BarstoolBigCat) September 27, 2017

All you who sleep tonight
Far from the ones you love,
No hand to left or right
And emptiness above -

Know that you aren't alone
The whole world shares your tears,
Some for two nights or one,
And some for all their years.
- Vikram Seth#280characters

— Raheel Khursheed (@Raheelk) September 27, 2017

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— Alice Goldfuss (@alicegoldfuss) September 27, 2017

back in the 90s, I was in a very famous tv show
i'm BoJack the Horse, BoJack the Horse
don't act like you don't know
and i'm trying to hold on to my past
it's been so long
i don't think i'm gonna last
i guess i'll just try
and make you understand
that i'm more horse than a man...

— BoJack Horseman (@BoJackHorseman) September 27, 2017

aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa

— Alice Maz (@alicemazzy) September 27, 2017

I
can
literally
take
up
an
entire
page
now.
What
a
great
idea.
Thanks,
Twitter.
This
is
truly
a
triumph
for
usability
and
discourse
on
what
was
a
ground-
breaking
platform.
So
glad
I
have
this
instead
of
better
anti-
harassment
response
or
a
blue
checkmark.

— Alice Goldfuss (@alicegoldfuss) September 27, 2017

Twitter has increased the character limit from 140 to 280. Which makes it that much easier for me to transition into that uncle who sends excruciatingly long jokes on Whatsapp.

Should I change my handle to Kapoor Uncle or Bhatia uncle or Saluja uncle Ghaziabad or Luthra Uncle or

— Akshar (@AksharPathak) September 27, 2017

I AM A GOLDEN GOD
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Twitter really fucked up giving me this power
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PS Suck my dick!

— Big Cat (@BarstoolBigCat) September 27, 2017

If you're not among the selected few, but are desperate to try out the 280-character limit, Twitter user Prof. 9 seems to have found a script to force enable the new limit. Follow these instructions.

Here's a quick TamperMonkey script that force enables 280 character tweets in the Twitter web client.https://t.co/uUhW0CKekS

— Prof. 9 (@Prof9) September 27, 2017

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