From Stephen Colbert to Chetan Bhagat: Twitter users respond with hilarious tweets on 280-character roll out

Twitterati came up with mixed reactions after Twitter rolled out 280 characters to all its users in supported languages including English.

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Do you think the 280-character limit on Twitter is a good move? (Source: File Photo)

Twitter has finally gone beyond the 140-character limit. Now users of the microblogging site can tweet in 280 characters. “Historically, 9% of Tweets in English hit the character limit. This reflects the challenge of fitting a thought into a Tweet, often resulting in lots of time spent editing and even at times abandoning Tweets before sending. With the expanded character count, this problem was massively reduced – that number dropped to only 1% of Tweets running up against the limit,” said the Twitter blog post.

This new feature, however, is not available to all the users. Meanwhile, twitterati had a mixed verdict on this new development. Not just the common people, celebrities also added to the humour

We all have 280 characters? Well, as Shakespeare wrote, “Brevity is the soul of wit. The soul of wit is what brevity is. Brevity? Soul of wit? They’re the same thing. Like if you had brevity in one hand and the soul of wit in the other, you’d be hard pressed to tell them apart.”

— Stephen Colbert (@StephenAtHome) November 8, 2017

It’s like living in a 1BHK all your life and suddenly moving to a 4BHK

So much space… #280characters

— Chetan Bhagat (@chetan_bhagat) November 8, 2017

Donald Trump now has #280characters but he still doesn’t have 280 brain cells.

— Palmer Report (@PalmerReport) November 8, 2017

Now trolls in India can insult me in Hindi and provide English translation #280characters

— Sanjay Manaktala (@smanak) November 8, 2017

several folks in my timeline have used their newly found 280 characters to do this. this is twitter’s worst update. https://t.co/7GNc1kj0co

— Polly Mosendz (@polly) November 7, 2017

So we can now send tweets with 280 characters instead of the old way of 140, I felt the need to test this new thing out. I was so used to 140, an upgrade to like 145 would have been huge! I feel the need to double space at end of sentences again…is that a thing anymore #280

— David Mazza (@DavidNBC4) November 7, 2017

I really hope someone is doing a longitudinal study of how the language in tweets changes as the character limit increases https://t.co/6gkMxJGDSc

— Gretchen McCulloch (@GretchenAMcC) November 7, 2017

#280characters Double the hate. Double the trolling. Double the outrage. Double the judgmental behavior. Double the personal attacks. Double the confirmation bias. Double the my camp vs yours. Yay!

— Chetan Bhagat (@chetan_bhagat) November 8, 2017

Ask for an edit button, receive twice as much space to need it. #280characters pic.twitter.com/PdScWBnngo

— Charlie Berens (@CharlieBerens) November 8, 2017

Twitter just became the Cheesecake Factory menu…. #280characters

— Cristela Alonzo (@cristela9) November 8, 2017

For Mumbaikars #280characters limit on twitter is like redevelopment mein bada flat mila hai.. lekin lifestyle waisi hi rakhenge.

— Godman Chikna (@Madan_Chikna) September 28, 2017

Happy Hours on Twitter be like. #280characters https://t.co/ABeEHsejBK

— Godman Chikna (@Madan_Chikna) November 8, 2017

Amitabh Then : T2559

Amitabh Now : Tweet number two thousand five hundred and fifty nine#280characters

— SAGAR (@sagarcasm) September 27, 2017

Twitter is the only place in the world where everyone has the same characters.

— Pakchikpak Raja Babu (@HaramiParindey) November 8, 2017

Trump tweeted two messages on Tuesday that went beyond the old 140 character limit.

Ed Gillespie worked hard but did not embrace me or what I stand for. Don’t forget, Republicans won 4 out of 4 House seats, and with the economy doing record numbers, we will continue to win, even bigger than before!

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) November 8, 2017

Getting ready to make a major speech to the National Assembly here in South Korea, then will be headed to China where I very much look forward to meeting with President Xi who is just off his great political victory.

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) November 8, 2017

However, it looks like Trump Junior is not impressed with the recent update on Twitter.

.@Twitter how about a compromise… you give everybody ONE 280 character a day? 140 was an art form, 280 is everyone’s chance to write their Gettysburg Address that no one wants to actually read.

— Donald Trump Jr. (@DonaldJTrumpJr) November 8, 2017

Japanese, Korean, and Chinese will continue to have 140 characters because cramming is not an issue in these languages, said Twitter.