But their test phase with 280 characters has indeed proved the opposite: Median and mode of tweet length are still roughly the same as before, judging from that

But their test phase with 280 characters has indeed proved the opposite: Median and mode of tweet length are still roughly the same as before, judging from that graph. This number doesn't come from thin air, but was calculated based on the assumption of log-normal distribution if there weren't a limit: https://blog.twitter.com/engineering/en_us/topics/insights/2017/Our-Discovery-of-Cramming.html https://blog.twitter.com/engineering/en_us/topics/insights/2...