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Why did Twitter increase text size to 280 characters?

Why did Twitter increase text size to 280 characters?

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Christian Jackson

Christian Jackson

Christian Jackson
Christian Jackson, Content Developer, Austin

Answered Nov 22, 2018

A lot of people have always complained about the limit in the characters that can be placed on Twitter. Since a lot of people rant about it, Twitter has decided to increase the limit. For some people, this is especially useful especially when they have a lot of things to say about it. For other people, they do not mind that much.

They know that they would be able to tweet consecutively if the tweets do not fit within the character limit. Twitter is known to be one of the most popular social media websites right now. It is evident that this is here to stay. Twitter does its best to please its millions of users.

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V. Barnes

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Answered Jun 13, 2018

Twitter decided to increase its text size to 280 because users demanded it and Twitter execs believed that increasing the text capacity for a tweet would allow the company to better compete against the more established social media platforms and sites such as Facebook. It was one of those things of what the consumer wanted and the consumer being able to get. More and more people were embracing Twitter and the biggest complaint that users had was that there were not enough charchters for them to be able to adquately update their statuses.

Twitter execs listened and the engineers went to work to expand the social media solution. It was very simple as to the reason why Twitter decided to increase its text size to 280. Users wanted bigger texting ability and they let Twitter know that. For that reason, Twitter chose to expand and increase the text size to 280.

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