<p class="title">As Twitter tests new 280-character tweets, two Germans exploited a loophole in the popular social network site and sent a massive 35,000-character tweet, breaking the existing limit.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Timrasett along with another user going by name HackneyYT broke Twitter's character limit with a message that begins "People! @Timrasett and @HackneyYT can exceed the character limit! You do not believe us? Heres about 35k characters proof."</p>.<p class="bodytext">After that, thousands of characters of seeming nonsense appear, tech website Gizmodo reported.</p>.<p class="bodytext">At least part of the trick was that the nonsense was formatted as a URL.</p>.<p class="bodytext">It is not yet clear how this method got past Twitters automatic link shortening tools, but the tweet was treated just the same as if it were sending out a standard, reasonably-sized URL.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Both users were briefly suspended and the tweet was deleted.</p>.<p class="bodytext">A spokesperson for Twitter confirmed that the company has made changes to prevent this from happening again.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Twitter recently announced a test project allowing tweets to be expanded to 280 charactersdouble the existing limit.</p>.<p class="bodytext">San Francisco-based Twitter said the new system, a major shift for the messaging platform known for its 140-character tweets, aims to address a major cause of frustration for many users.</p>.<p class="bodytext">A small group of users will see the new limits before Twitter decides on rolling out the changes more broadly.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Currently, the 280-character tweet facility is available to a small group of its 328 million users but the changes would soon be available for all users.</p>
<p class="title">As Twitter tests new 280-character tweets, two Germans exploited a loophole in the popular social network site and sent a massive 35,000-character tweet, breaking the existing limit.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Timrasett along with another user going by name HackneyYT broke Twitter's character limit with a message that begins "People! @Timrasett and @HackneyYT can exceed the character limit! You do not believe us? Heres about 35k characters proof."</p>.<p class="bodytext">After that, thousands of characters of seeming nonsense appear, tech website Gizmodo reported.</p>.<p class="bodytext">At least part of the trick was that the nonsense was formatted as a URL.</p>.<p class="bodytext">It is not yet clear how this method got past Twitters automatic link shortening tools, but the tweet was treated just the same as if it were sending out a standard, reasonably-sized URL.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Both users were briefly suspended and the tweet was deleted.</p>.<p class="bodytext">A spokesperson for Twitter confirmed that the company has made changes to prevent this from happening again.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Twitter recently announced a test project allowing tweets to be expanded to 280 charactersdouble the existing limit.</p>.<p class="bodytext">San Francisco-based Twitter said the new system, a major shift for the messaging platform known for its 140-character tweets, aims to address a major cause of frustration for many users.</p>.<p class="bodytext">A small group of users will see the new limits before Twitter decides on rolling out the changes more broadly.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Currently, the 280-character tweet facility is available to a small group of its 328 million users but the changes would soon be available for all users.</p>