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Twitter should go back to 140 characters

By R.J. Stempak · Monday, Nov. 13, 2017

Twitter recently relaxed the character restriction on its website, doubling the number of characters a user can submit per tweet from 140 to 280. The change has elicited a heated debate about the purpose of the social media platform.

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