yes, tweets are generally 140 characters but you can tweet longer than 140 chars as well, by visiting this link twitlonger.com/index.php/main_new
Twitter is an online social networking and microblogging service that enables its users to send and read text-based posts of up to 140 characters
What sort of a question was that?? while reading through all replies it seems like this thread was created just to promote twitlonger
It is based on an old text SMS based system of a 160 character limit. Twitter reserves 20 characters for a unique user address and leaves the rest (140) for the tweet.
every one says right 140 character... But you can find "character limit right in the box" why you asking here ?
- I agree serena85, if anyone has been on Twitter, they will know it's 140. I think this post was only to increase the poster's post level - waste of time!