Chinese social network Sina Weibo is removing its 140-character limit. According to a report from China’s Xinhua News, the company’s CEO confirmed the plans today, with the new format — reportedly allowing posts up to 2,000 characters in length — set to roll out to “senior users” on January 28th and hitting all other accounts exactly a month later.
The change follows rumors that Twitter is planning to drop its own character limit, originally implemented so that tweets could be made via text. The company has already dropped the limit for direct messages, but it’s still not clear how it might introduce longer tweets. Rather than simply extending the character limit, it’s possible that the social network will allow users to simply embed…
