Twitter on Tuesday confirmed that a year after doubling the character limit for tweets, the average length of messages fired off in English actually got a smidge shorter. The news promised to allay concerns that raising the character limit from 140 to 280 last year would ruin Twitter's succinct comment style and lead to rants, rambles and diatribes. "We made this change because we want every person around the world to express themselves easily in a Tweet," Twitter said in response to an AFP inquiry. "Our goal was to make this possible while ensuring we keep the speed and brevity that makes Twitter, Twitter." The typical length of a tweet in English actually dropped by a c...
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