After about two months of testing, at the 280 character limit, the Twitter starting today to feature the new limit for everyone.
Twitter says you shouldn't now expect to see massive tweets of 280 characters right away.
According to the data collected by the company, the number of tweets with higher than average characters was very small. In fact, only 5% of tweets sent by those testing the new feature exceeded the 140 character limit.
According to Twitter's product manager Aliza rosen:
"We saw that more than 140 characters were needed, but there were too many tweets under 140 characters"
The new character limit will be available in all languages that have problems with the older limit.
According to aface, Japanese, Korean and Chinese do not require a higher limit due to the characters they use as each character can have a different meaning.
