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**As Twitter tests 280-character tweets** — doubling the previous 140-character limit — two German users have successfully broke the existing character limit by sending a massive 35,000-character tweet. [caption id=“attachment_4193019” align=“alignleft” width=“380”] Representational Image.[/caption] According to an Engadget report, the duo formatted a gibberish message as a URL and posted it on Twitter. User Timrasett worked with another user going by the name of HackneyYT to break Twitter’s character limit with a message: “People! @Timrasett and @HackneyYT can exceed the character limit! You do not believe us? Here’s about 35k characters proof.” Twitter temporarily banned the two users, though their accounts were back after some time. A Twitter spokesperson confirmed that the exploit has been fixed. Currently, the 280-character tweet facility is available to a small group of its 328 million users but it would soon be rolled out globally, Twitter has said in a blog post. According to Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey, this is a small change, but a big move for them.
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“The 140 limit was an arbitrary choice based on the 160 character SMS limit. Proud of how thoughtful the team has been in solving a real problem people have when trying to tweet. And at the same time maintaining our brevity, speed, and essence!” Dorsey had tweeted. Last year, there were reports that the micro-blogging site may go for 10,000-character tweets. But Dorsey denied those reports, saying the 140-character limit is “a beautiful constraint” and that Twitter “will never lose that feeling”. The 140-character limit has been around as long as Twitter has been and has become part of the product’s personality.
