With about 330 million monthly active users around the world, twitter has now taken a new step of doubling the word limit of its tweets. Launched in 2006, the average word limit of twitter was 140 characters. But now the company has decided to increase the word limit and make it double to 280 characters per tweet.
Twitter explained in a blog post why it decided to make the tweak permanent: Historically, 9% of Tweets in English hit the character limit. This reflects the challenge of fitting a thought into a Tweet, often resulting in lots of time spent editing and even at times abandoning Tweets before sending. With the expanded character count, this problem was massively reduced – that number dropped to only 1% of Tweets running up against the limit
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