Chinese state 2000-character Twitter

- Weibo lets loose the restriction that messages can not be longer than 140 characters. From February 28th, users of the Chinese version of Twitter messages up to 2000 characters stations, a spokesperson of the microblogging site to know South China Morning Post.

Weibo launches news coverage on January 28 when a group of beta testers. Exactly one month later to send all 500 million users of the service to your heart long tweets. Incidentally, only the first 140 characters of a message remain visible. To see the rest need to press users added enter button.

'' Out of Weibo data show that only 10 percent of the messages longer than 120 Chinese characters, '' the spokesman said. '' Yet we expand the limit to offer more choice and a better user experience. ''

Twitter announced earlier this month that it is considering throwing the limit of the number of characters up to 10. possible 000. This led to much criticism from users. It is not yet known if Twitter goes through with the plan.