 "Twitter to officially roll out 280 character tweet limit in a bid to increase user engagement")
Microblogging website Twitter Inc, known for its iconic 140-character tweets, said on Tuesday it would roll out **280-character tweets** to users across the world. [caption id=“attachment_4158763” align=“alignleft” width=“380”]  The Twitter app icon. Reuters[/caption] Twitter said it ran a test on 280-character tweets in September that showed users spent less time editing their tweets and were less likely to abandon them. User posting in languages including Japanese, Korean and Chinese, which do not face the issue of “cramming”, will continue to have a limit of 140 characters, Twitter said. The company did not say when it would start allowing users to **post** 280-character tweets.
Twitter said it ran a test on 280-character tweets in September that showed users spent less time editing their tweets and were less likely to abandon them.
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