Did you even read the blog? The increase wasn't arbitrary. And neither is the initial 140 limit... Originally, our constraint was 160 (limit of a text) minus

Did you even read the blog? The increase wasn't arbitrary. And neither is the initial 140 limit... Originally, our constraint was 160 (limit of a text) minus username. But we noticed @biz got 1 more than @jack. For fairness, we chose 140. Now texts are unlimited. Also, we realize that 140 isn't fair—there are differences between languages. We're testing the limits. Hello 280! https://twitter.com/biz/status/912783936123691009 https://twitter.com/biz/status/912783936123691009