Weibo beats Twitter to dropping 140 character limit

To the surprise of many passionate Twitter users, the company hinted earlier this year that it’s looking to drop — or change — the 140-character per-tweet character limit. Weibo, China’s micro-blogging service, has beaten the company to it. Today, it’s announced that it will drop the 140-character limit as an experiment from January 26, potentially allowing all the way up to 2,000 characters per message. The new feature will only show the first 140 charac