Twitter Doubled Its Character Limit And People Are Piiiiiissed!

For the last 11 years, Twitter’s defining attribute has been its 140-character limit. That may all be set to change as the social media platform announced on Tuesday it would be doubling its text limit to 280 characters. Or at least trying it out “with a small group of people before we make a decision to launch to everyone.”

“But, like…why?” was the general question among actual Twitter users.

Twitter’s reason was the stringent character limit was preventing more people from tweeting. “We understand since many of you have been Tweeting for years, there may be an emotional attachment to 140 characters – we felt it, too,” they wrote in a blog post. “But we tried this, saw the power of what it will do, and fell in love with this new, still brief, constraint.”

Suffice it to say that many Tweeters have yet to do the same and more concerned with Twitter refusing to address what they perceive to be the larger issues at hand; Abusive trolls, Neo-Nazis, POTUS declaring war on North Korea via their social media service, etc.etc. You know, normal 2017 stuff.

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WHERE’S THE EDIT BUTTON, TWITTER?