Twitter rises by 140

Twitter’s experiment with doubling the maximum tweet length was apparently a success.

The social network is expanding support for 280-character tweets to every language “where cramming was an issue” — that is, almost all of them.

You’re still capped at 140 if you write in Chinese, Japanese or Korean ,the density of their languages already lets them say more, Twitter says.

But most users now have a better chance of expressing themselves without resorting to tweetstorms or shortening wrds 2 mk thm fit. And before you ask: no, Twitter doesn’t believe most people will abuse this newfound freedom.