As Twitter tests new 280-character tweets, two Germans exploited a loophole in the popular social network site and sent a massive 35,000-character tweet, breaking the existing limit. Timrasett along with another user going by name HackneyYT broke Twitter's character limit with a message that begins "People! It is not yet clear how this method got past Twitter s automatic link shortening tools, but the tweet was treated just the same as if it were sending out a standard, reasonably-sized URL. Twitter recently announced a test project allowing tweets to be expanded to 280 characters double the existing limit. A small group of users will see the new limits before Twitter decides on rolling out the changes more broadly.

Source: dna November 07, 2017 11:45 UTC