Kenyans On Twitter (KOT) are now a happy lot after Twitter announced it had officially rolled out the 280-character limit.
This is for all the languages it supports, with the exception of Japanese, Korean, and Chinese tweets.
“Historically, 9 percent 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,”Twitter said.
“With the expanded character count, this problem was massively reduced – that number dropped to only 1 percent of Tweets running up against the limit. Since we saw Tweets hit the character limit less often, we believe people spent less time editing their Tweets in the composer. This shows that more space makes it easier for people to fit thoughts in a Tweet, so they could say what they want to say, and send Tweets faster than before.”
We’re expanding the character limit! We want it to be easier and faster for everyone to express themselves.
More characters. More expression. More of what’s happening.https://t.co/wBpYdy1K40
— Twitter (@Twitter) November 7, 2017
The updated Twitter also replaced the character count with a small circle that gradually fills up as you type.
According to Nendo, Kenya has an estimated 1 million monthly (KOT) users on Twitter.