Twitter 280-character limit lets users play Tetris, Chess and Connect Four in tweets
Sign up to our free weekly IndyTech newsletter delivered straight to your inbox Sign up to our free IndyTech newsletter Sign up to our free IndyTech newsletter SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy People are using Twitter’s new 280-character tweet limit to play classic games. The micro-blogging site doubled its character limit last week, and users have been busy finding brand new ways to ridicule the move. Others, including Gizmodo’s Bryan Menegus, are playing chess, using the expanded character limit to create a full board complete with black and white chess piece characters. “I’m concerned that Twitter seems to be vastly underestimating the number of fake accounts and bots pushing disinformation,” said Senator Mark Warner, the top Democrat on the Senate Intelligence Committee, earlier this month, the New York Times reports.
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