Twitter doubles character limit to 280 for (nearly) everyone

NEW YORK - Twitter says it's ending its iconic 140-character limit - and giving nearly everyone 280 characters.  Users tweeting in Chinese, Japanese and Korean will still have the original limit. That's because writing in those languages uses fewer characters.  The company says 9 percent of tweets written in English hit the 140-character limit. This causes people to spend more time editing their tweets or not sending them out at all. Twitter hopes that the ex