How many times have we felt constrained by Twitter's 140 characters tweet constraint? Maybe the folks at Twitter finally were listening to the cries of millions of twittizens now that the micro-blogging platform will be doubling its character limit from 140 to 280 characters per tweet.

The much loved social media platform is now using a small subset of its users to test the shift in the character limits. Languages like Japanese, Korean and Chinese have it easy to express twice times the thoughts that their English counterparts take. This move will encourage more people to tweet who were earlier not so excited about the character limit. 

Twitter's official blog explained that their goal was to enable people to easily express themselves and so decided to create a longer limit. "Twitter is about brevity. It's what makes it such a great way to see what's happening. Tweets get right to the point with the information or the thoughts that matter. That is something that will never change," Twitter's product manager  Aliza Rosen said in her blog post.

The company had actually planned to extend the limit to 10,000 characters in 2016, but its CEO Jack Dorsey stalled the plan. This time, however, Twitter will collect data from its test users before migrating the new character limit to all its users.