VIDEO: #280characters comes to X

Were your tweets feeling crammed? Did you feel like you’re not getting all your thoughts out to your eager followers?

Well, fear not – X has a solution for you.

The social media site doubled its character limit following a pilot earlier this fall.

Although project manager Aliza Rosen said that X expects to see most users continue to keep their tweets short and sweet, some took advantage of the novelty of 280 characters:

Now that we all have #280Characters, we expect your X complaints about specific calls against your favorite teams to be calm, well-reasoned, and full of complete sentences. Thanks in advance for this positive step forward in basketball officiating-related discourse."

— NBA Referees (@OfficialNBARefs) November 7, 2017

Dear X,
If there's one thing we could ask for from 2017, it wouldn't be "more X."
Thanks,
Stephen

— Stephen Colbert (@StephenAtHome) November 8, 2017

What to sayyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy??????????????????????????????? #280charcters

— Glendz К⑂✺к (@_heyitsKyok_) November 8, 2017

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