Twitter is now bestowing everyone with the glory of 280 characters
Twitter openly values one account above all others, but at least everyone else will soon be on the same glorious pedestal. Back in September, Twitter announced that a select number users would have their character limit raised from 140 characters to 280, and the lucky few who received Jack Dorsey’s blessing were quick to embrace their newfound godhood by posting unnecessarily wordy complaints and repeating the same jokes about adding a message board-style signature to every tweet in order to properly utilize their 280 characters. Meanwhile, the ones who still had 140 were pushed around and treated like garbage, forced to immediately scroll past every 280-character tweet because they’re stupid and too long while cursing their own inability to embrace verbosity.