Twitter is testing a 280-character expansion and everyone is making the same joke

Who ever runs out of charac...

Twitter tests a new feature, Twitter users respond with sass.

That's a general rule of our favourite microblogging platform. But now that with the 280-character experiment for a few chosen ones the platform wants to become less "micro" and more "blogging", the sass is reaching new heights.

You can probably imagine the joke everyone was making.

It all started, naturally, with Ellen DeGen...

I mean, who ever runs out of...

Marketing also chipp...

I mean, the new feature is totally unnecessary becau...

If you don't know brevity there's noth...

There's no business being on Twitte...

Sorry to be repetitive, but who ever runs out of charac...

OK, I feel this joke has run out of stea...

Or has i...

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