Thomson Reuters
Twitter rolled out its new 280 character limit for tweets on Tuesday, to both the concern and delight of many.
The platform first began testing the extended tweet lengths with a select group of users in late September, a controversial announcement that caused some to question the platform's priorities and others, desiring to be included in the test, to turn to unofficial workarounds to gain access to longer tweets.
But with the changes officially rolling out to all Twitter users in the US on Tuesday, people quickly took to the platform to test out the increased space in creative ways.
Here, we've rounded up some of their best efforts:
Some felt that the new character limit had given them more than they had bargained for:
"Law and Order" used the space to quote some of the most important lines ever uttered on screen:
The NBA hoped that the extra characters would lend a touch of eloquence to any future sports complaints:
The Yankees got up to a bit of showing off:
Others suggested increased specifications for properly tweeting to them:
The Cookie Monster shared a deep and pressing thought:
Birds rights activists used it to sound off on an important issue:
Stephen Colbert considered what Shakespeare might have to say on the subject:
And still others used the space to convey stirring personal narratives:
Some cushioned their important ponderings in well-deserved empty space:
And, perhaps most importantly, there was hope that the increased space wouldn't be abused to spread meaningless fodder:
All we wanted was an edit button
All we wanted was an edit button
All we wanted was an edit button
All we wanted was an edit button
All we wanted was an edit button
All we wanted was an edit button
All we wanted was an edit button
All we wanted was an edit button#280characters
- SEMPER FIDELIS (@Sushimibelle) November 8, 2017In the criminal justice system, sexually based offenses are considered especially heinous. In New York City, the dedicated detectives who investigate these vicious felonies are members of an elite squad known as the Special Victims Unit. These are their stories. *DUN DUN*
- Law and Order: SVU (@nbcsvu) November 7, 2017Now that we all have #280Characters, we expect your Twitter complaints about specific calls against your favorite teams to be calm, well-reasoned, and full of complete sentences. Thanks in advance for this positive step forward in basketball officiating-related discourse."
- NBA Referees (@OfficialNBARefs) November 7, 20172009
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Wow. We've never been able to do that before! Thanks, @twitter. pic.twitter.com/4W1U7qpLlj
- New York Yankees (@Yankees) November 8, 2017now that i have 280 characters all tweets to me must be a correctly formatted research paper. paper must include:
-12 pt times new roman
-double spaced
-works cited page
-thesis statement
-footnotes
-full bibliography
-in text citations
-MLA or APA formatting
-Submitted as .docx
- tan (@mineifiwildout) November 7, 2017.🍪🍪🍪
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- Cookie Monster (@MeCookieMonster) November 8, 2017BIRD BIRD BIRD BIRD BIRD BIRD BIRD BIRD BIRD BIRD BIRD BIRD BIRD BIRD BIRD BIRD BIRD BIRD BIRD BIRD BIRD BIRD BIRD BIRD BIRD BIRD BIRD BIRD BIRD BIRD BIRD BIRD BIRD BIRD BIRD BIRD BIRD BIRD BIRD BIRD BIRD BIRD BIRD BIRD BIRD BIRD BIRD BIRD BIRD BIRD BIRD BIRD BIRD BIRD BIRD BIRD
- birdsrightsactivist (@ProBirdRights) November 7, 2017We all have 280 characters? Well, as Shakespeare wrote, "Brevity is the soul of wit. The soul of wit is what brevity is. Brevity? Soul of wit? They're the same thing. Like if you had brevity in one hand and the soul of wit in the other, you'd be hard pressed to tell them apart."
- Stephen Colbert (@StephenAtHome) November 8, 2017I can't drink Gatorade inside because I get too excited while drinking it and always end up making a huge mess. Now I go outside to drink it, the way people do when they smoke cigarettes. One time a crowd gathered around me to watch, and I made $3.50 in quarters
- Brendan O'Hare (@brendohare) October 5, 2017what if seinfeld still on TV?
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jery get ipad
- Seinfeld Current Day (@Seinfeld2000) November 8, 2017280 characters! Cool.
I
hope
no
one
abuses
this
by
making
long
spaced
out
tweets
like
this
one
because
that
would
be
really
annoying
I
mean
I️
figured
140
was
fine
if
it
ain't
broke
don't
fix
it
holy
shit
this
is
longer
than
I️
thought
- Jarrod Alonge (@JarrodAlonge) November 8, 2017