China's counterpart to Twitter known as Sina Weibo recently removed its 140 limit and embraced a 2,000 characters one, ahead of the San-Francisco based online social networking site.
According to reports, the idea of Sina Weibo's newest character limit is that users can finally write a more drawn out post with just the initial 140 characters displayed until users click to view more.
"The new rule will be restricted to original posts, with the old character cap being retained for comments and forwarded posts," Beijing News reported.
As of press time, Sina Weibo's newest 2,000 character limit is being rolled out in a trial period beginning last Jan. 28 and is expected to open up to all members following an one-month trial period, with the fully content displayed to all followers.
With that being said, vast majority of Weibo's users seems to be glad and contented with the said moved, as they can finally write a longer post compare to the previous 140-character limit.
It is also worth noting that the company dropped the character limit ahead of Twitter's initiative, as the San-Francisco based social media site is rumored to be reluctant on removing its 140 limit, following users sharing their disappointment about the potential move.
It was beforehand reported that numerous users feel that the new character limit takes away something that was a stand-out about Twitter and would eventually turn out to be similar to a more open long-frame essays like those found on Facebook.
Prior to this year, Twitter's CEO Jack Dorsey recently indicated their willingness to change its own character limit, potentially up to 10,000.
"We've spent a lot of time observing what people are doing on Twitter, and we see them taking screenshots of text and tweeting it," said Jack Dorsey, as noted by Forbes. "Instead, what if that text... was actually text? Text that could be searched. Text that could be highlighted. That's more utility and power."
Despite of the reports claiming that Twitter is still pondering about whether they'll dropped the 140-character limit, it is still strongly speculated that the said revamp might apparently take full effect before the first quarter of the year ends.