You can turn on a character count on your iPhone's Messages app with a setting change, so that your phone will tell you how long your SMS messages are as you type. To turn on this setting, you'll just ...

Getting your message across in a clear and concise manner always helps keep your social media audience interested, but becomes essential on Twitter. When you only have 140 characters in which to fit ...

Twitter may have just upped its character limit to 280, but you wouldn't know it just by looking at its tweet composer. As part of the update, which doubled the amount of characters you can cram into ...

Knowing that Twitter limits users to 140-character posts has always been equal parts joy and frustration: Joy in knowing that some people on the social media site can’t get too long winded, and ...

Whether we like it or not, we now have 280 characters to play with on Twitter – but their generosity doesn't just stop there. Because the social network has also introduced a longer character count ...

Twitter announced today on its developer forum that all emojis will count evenly toward the platform's maximum 280 character limit. Before this update, various modifiers such as gender and skin tone ...

I sent my first 280-character tweet today. It was a joke–purposefully cut off at the end when I mentioned a taco salad. I followed that one by writing two haiku in a row with a line about what they ...