How to Get 280 Characters Per Tweet Right Now

Twitter has always been about brevity, but the company appears to be relaxing its strict limit of 140 characters per tweet. As an experimental feature, the company is allowing some people to use up to 280 characters per tweet. Like every major change in a product that many people use, this one has proven to be polarizing. Some people love it and others just don’t. No matter which side of the debate you’re on, you can try the feature for yourself and decide whether you like it. It would be great if Twitter enabled it on your account. If not, these steps will help you double the number of characters per tweet.

How to post a 280-character tweet on Twitter.com

If you are using Google Chrome, follow these steps:

1. Open twitter deck and log in using your Twitter account.
2. Click view > Developer > Developer Tools
3. click source tab.
4. Click now > button and select fragment.
5. Click new clip.
6. Now go to this Github page and copy the code you see there. Alternatively, you can copy it here:
   

   TD.services.TwitterClient.prototype.makeTwitterCall=function(b,e,f,g,c,d,h){c=c||function(){};d=d||function(){};b=this.request(b,{method:f,params:Object.assign(e,{weighted_character_count:!0}),processor:g,feedType:h});return b.addCallbacks(function(a){c(a.data)},function(a){d(a.req,””,a.msg,a.req.errors)}),b};
   twttrTxt=Object.assign({},twttr.txt,{isInvalidTweet:function(){return!1},getTweetLength:function(){return twttr.txt.getTweetLength.apply(this,arguments)-140}});

7. Now paste this code into the box to the right of the New Snippet button.
8. click Play icon.
9. Now click the New Tweet button in Tweetdeck and voila! You’ll see that the character limit is now 280. Tweet to your heart’s content.

If you’re using Firefox, follow these steps:

1. Open Firefox and log into Twitter via twitter deck.
2. Click tool > web developer > Web console.
3. The console will appear in the lower half of the page. At the bottom you will see an icon that looks like this >. Click the space on the right. This is where you need to paste the code.
4. But first, you need to tell Firefox that you know what you’re doing. type Allow pasting. This will allow you to paste the code – a simple security measure to prevent people from accidentally messing up their browser.
5. Now paste the code from this page or you can copy it from above. beat Enter.
6. That’s it, you’re now ready to start tweeting 280 characters.

If you’re using Safari, follow these steps:

1. First, you need to enable develop Menus in Safari. Click hunting trip on the top menu bar and click Preferences.
2. Now go to advanced tab and make sure Show the Develop menu in the menu bar Enabled.
3. Now log in to Twitter via twitter deck.
4. Then you need to click develop in the menu bar at the top and click Show JavaScript console.
5. Paste the same code we used in Chrome and Firefox. You can find it here and click Enter.
6. That’s it, you’re now ready to start tweeting 280 characters.

If this all sounds too complicated, follow this alternative to start tweeting in 280 characters. Note that this involves installing the Google Chrome extension, so it should work on Chrome and Opera:

1. Download the Tampermonkey extension for Google Chrome.
2. Head over to Github where you can find a script that allows you to send 280 characters per tweet.
3. Click raw beside Twitter Cramming.user.js.
4. This will open the Tampermonkey extension in a new tab.
5. Click Install.
6. Go now twitter and log in.
7. Start tweeting and you’ll find that you can tweet up to 280 characters. Just ignore the number 140 that appears under the new tweet box. You will be able to tweet up to 280 characters.

This is the easiest way to start each tweet with 280 characters. Do you like this new feature? Let us know in the comments. For more tutorials, visit our how-to section.