Just hours after Re/code published a report on Tuesday revealing that Twitter’s 140-character restriction would soon be abolished, Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey posted a message on the social network ...

All you need is a couple of minutes and 140 characters. If 140 sounds like a familiar number to you, that’s because it was Twitter’s original character limit (things are obviously very ...

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Social media site Twitter is trialling longer character limits to help users "easily express themselves". Twitter currently limits tweets to 140 characters, but has doubled that to 280 characters ...

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Another Twitter landmark was set recently ... take a look at our version of history in 140 character or less snippets. First man on the moon, 1969 @neilarmstrong: Forget Twitosphere, it's all ...

Partisans from both sides used the social networking service to share their thoughts about the speech — with the caveat that they must do it within the tight 140 characters Twitter allots to their ...

140 Characters Of F*ck, Sh!t, And @ss: How We Swear On Twitter Researchers plumbed the depths of Twitter's foul-mouthed users to find out which dirty-ass words people fucking tweet the most.