Twitter’s 280 character tweets are rolling out for (almost) everyone today

After testing a new 280-character limit a couple of months ago, Twitter is rolling out the new limit to everyone, starting today. Twitter says you shouldn’t expect to see an apocalyptic flood of massive tweets now, though. According to its data, the number of tweets with a higher-than-average character count was small after the initial novelty wore off. In fact, only 5 percent of tweets sent by testers were longer than 140 characters. According to Twitter’s Product Manager Aliza Rosen: We saw when people needed to use more than 140 characters, they Tweeted more easily and more often. But importantly,…

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