Twitter character limit grows, the sporting world reacts
As the social media giant doubled the limit to everyone's tweets, many in the world of football and beyond were keen to take advantage.
Today the social media giant Twitter changed one of its founding principles: the character length for user tweets. The expanded limit now allows for 280 characters instead of the previous 140 and the sporting world, along with everyone else, has shared their views.
Agüero and De Gea in 280 characters
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The two clubs currently sitting at the top of the Premier League, Manchester City and Manchester United, have got plans to take advantage of the doubled space.
280 characters means we can now go...
— Manchester City (@ManCity) November 8, 2017
AGUEROOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO pic.twitter.com/pEZyuK5tg2
With the introduction of #280characters, we are delighted to announce #DaveSaves will be extended to #DavidSaves. pic.twitter.com/S7PNq2Ip0S
— Manchester United (@ManUtd) November 8, 2017
Twitter limit response in sport
Here you have a selection of some of our favourite responses related to sport. We'll add more as they appear...
Finally! Enough characters to count all of Tom’s wins.
— New England Patriots (@Patriots) November 8, 2017
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Hey @Twitter, can we get some more characters?
Now 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, 2017
Sri Lanka cricketers' full names?
— ESPNcricinfo (@ESPNcricinfo) November 8, 2017
All of Chris Gayle's T20 teams?
Listing South Africa's defeats in knockout matches?
What would you use #280characters for? #Twitter280
Thanks #twitter280! We can now name the #S04 squad in a tweet 💙
— FC Schalke 04 (@s04_en) November 8, 2017
#Fährmann#Langer#Nübel#Nastasic#Kehrer#Insua#Naldo#Oczipka#Coke#Riether#Stambouli#Goretzka#Bentaleb#McKennie#Schöpf#Caligiuri#Meyer#Harit#Konoplyanka#Avdijaj#Embolo#Burgstaller#DiSanto#Reese pic.twitter.com/8s2e0CPb7c
The #Bundesliga table, #Twitter280 style 😎 @FCBayernEN@RBLeipzig_EN@BVB@s04_en
— Bundesliga English (@Bundesliga_EN) November 8, 2017
@achtzehn99_en@Hannover96@eintracht_eng@borussia_en@bayer04_en@FCA_World@HerthaBSC_EN@VfB_int@Mainz05en@VfLWolfsburg_EN@HSV_English@scfreiburg@werderbremen_en@fckoeln_en pic.twitter.com/gnERfAxEpu
Thank you @Twitter, now we can finally write in one tweet all the trophies we've won! 😉
— AC Milan (@acmilan) November 8, 2017
7 #UCL 🏆
5 #UEFASuperCup 🏆
2 Cup Winners' Cups 🏆
3 Intercontinental Cups 🏆
1 FIFA Club World Cup 🏆
18 Scudetto titles 🇮🇹
5 Italian Cups 🇮🇹
7 Italian Super Cups 🇮🇹#280characters 🆕 pic.twitter.com/onffmFrbR0
🇷🇺RUS
— FIFA World Cup (@FIFAWorldCup) November 8, 2017
🇧🇷BRA
🇮🇷IRN
🇯🇵JPN
🇲🇽MEX
🇧🇪BEL
🇰🇷KOR
🇸🇦KSA
🇩🇪GER
🦁ENG
🇪🇸ESP
🇳🇬NGA
🇨🇷CRC
🇵🇱POL
🇪🇬EGY
🇮🇸ISL
🇷🇸SRB
🇫🇷FRA
🇵🇹POR
🇦🇷ARG
🇨🇴COL
🇺🇾URU
🇵🇦PAN
2⃣3⃣ decided
9⃣ #WCQ tickets left to claim
🎟️🎟️🎟️🎟️🎟️🎟️🎟️🎟️🎟️#280characters