'I stopped reading halfway through:' Twitter users are furious about the new longer tweets (TWTR)

Tweets had previously been limited to 140 characters. Many considered that Twitter's defining characteristic.

But now it's testing tweets that can be twice as long. Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey announced the change in a tweet made up of exactly 280 letters, numbers, and symbols.

This is a small change, but... @ jack

But the real question is what Twitter's notoriously snarky userbase made up of tech nerds, politics journalists, sports fans, and Russian bots thinks. So far, it seems like they hate it.

Here are some tweets:

LIVE from Twitter HQ <a hre... @ Product Hunt

I stopped reading halfway t... @ Matt House

too long, didn#emo#t read <a hr... @ laura j. brown

'Ban Nazis pls' 'We're maki... @ Daily Mail Comments

just get rid of the nazis j... @ stephanie

Can we have a smart edit fu... @ Nibel

hi jack, this is bad. twitt... @ jon hendren

<a href="https://t.co/N4G8t... @ Brian Barone

Seriously who asked for thi... @ g.

RIP my favorite twitter jok... @ austin walker

Ugh. Nobody comes to the Tw... @ Pwn All The Things

Or... and just hear us out... @ AtlantaMotorSpeedway

this looks like a facebook ... @ #emo##emo##emo#

Testing the limits of human... @ MUGATU

Going to #280 confirms my t... @ #emo#Steven Sinofsky #emo#

Twitter going up to 280 cha... @ Murdo Fraser

twitter increasing the char... @ lewis aitken

ok i am in . #emo#,,#emo# #emo#(#emo##emo#... @ darth:#emo#

literally my only talent wa... @ christine teigen

riverrun, past Eve and Adam... @ Mark Bergen

Some people are wondering how famous Twitter user President Donald Trump will take the news.

Great, now he can start nuc... @ #emo#ikey#emo##emo##emo##emo#

the world: trump gonna get ... @ Desus Nice

Also, yes, we asked if Trum... @ #emo#_#emo#

Will decide whether or not ... @ zak ali

VC Bill Gurley, who backed Twitter before it was a public company, likes the move, though.

Can't wait for 280.... @ Bill Gurley

So does The New York Times' Silicon Valley columnist:

I still think this is a gre... @ Farhad Manjoo #emo##emo#

Ultimately, the key audience for this change will be normal people who aren't addicted to Twitter. Some like it!

@Forbes @verified Thank you... @ Rachel Browne

THANK YOU @Twitter For incr... @ Austin

Twitter giving me 280 chara... @ Shawnald McDonald

'I stopped reading halfway through:' Twitter users are furious about the new longer tweets (TWTR)

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