Short and Tweet is up

NEED more room to type those deep thoughts? Twitter is testing a 280-character limit for tweets, doubling the current length restriction that’s been in place since the company’s founding 11 years ago.

The test is being made available to a small subset of user. The original 140-character limit was created so tweets would fit in a single text message back when people used Twitter that way.

Twitter has already eased the restrictions, and doesn’t count photos, videos, polls and other things toward the character limit.