US President Donald Trump won ’t be part of the group testing the expanded character limit for messages on the Twitter the social network.
“He’s not in the test group , ” Twitter co - founder Biz Stone said in a tweet Tuesday , after a flurry of comments following the announcement of a test allowing some users up to 280 characters, or twice the current maximum.
Stone was responding to a comment from one Twitter user who commented sarcastically : “Thank u @biz and @jack (chief executive Jack Dorsey) for giving Donald Trump two times more space instead of addressing the mess he was already doing with 140 characters . ”
Trump has used Twitter as a platform for major policy announcements as well as for spontaneous, and sometimes incendiary , remarks on various topics .
In the past week , debate has swirled over whether Trump ’ s tweeting about North Korea — including a comment where he said its leader “won ’t be around much longer ” violated Twitter’ s terms of service banning threats of violence.
Twitter responded with a pledge to review its policy while noting that “newsworthiness” and public interest must be considered in deciding whether to take down a tweet .
Many Twitter users took to the platform to criticize the new limits, with some particularly harsh words for Trump .
“Giving Trump 280 characters to play with is practically begging for an international incident,” one user wrote.
Another user commented: “ With 280 characters now trump can start a nuclear war and a war with the NFL in one tweet . What a time to be alive. ”
Twitter said a small number of users will be given the expanded limit before a decision is made on whether to roll out the change broadly .
AFP
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