Someone broke Twitter with a 35k character tweet

New Delhi, November 07: Twitter recently announced a 280-word tweet limit, increasing the tweet limit of 140 words. However, two German Twitter users successfully broke the existing character limit by sending a 35,000-character tweet.

By formatting a message as a URL with extensive gibberish, they were able to absurdly pollute followers' timelines.They were able to make the characters in the tweet by the URL embedding method.



Twitter has temporarily suspended their accounts for breaking the rule. The Twitter spokesperson confirmed that the exploit has been fixed and pointed to its rules, specifically.