chest for a fifth stuff for a possible fifth world cup so it's all. now twitter is rolling out a new feature that strong plenty of cheers and jeers it's doubling the number of characters allowed in most tweets from one hundred forty to two hundred eighty twitter had previously raise the character limit for just a select group of users to test out the change let's see what's being said about it one gamer and you tube are used all of the new characters to repeat this was a mistake many critics say a doubling the character limit ruins their favorite thing about tweeting the brevity others think the update sounds better than it really is one woman joked me with out two hundred eighty characters i have so much to say with two hundred eighty characters false alarm some people joking about the whole issue of character limits like this user who posted a collage of two hundred eighty cartoon characters but for all the skeptics the