140wordsmicrobloggingabolishrestrictionsstillwaitingfortheuserdisagreeResearchpapersDownloadNews:Earlierthisyear,SinamicrobloggingannouncedthatwitheffectfromFebruary28tocancelthe140-characterlimitforallusers,buttimehaspassedforseveraldays,forthischangedidnotpushit.Reportersyesterdaytryingtopublishcontentmorethan140characters,Twittertipscannotexceed140words,failedtopublish.Inthisregard,SinaBorespondedthatcancelthewordlimitiscurrentlystillintestingamongallopenstilltakesometime,thereisnospecifictimetableforaction.Previously,usersdryingoutthescreenshotshows,releasedmicrobloggingclientinterfacepop-upprompts,youcansendmorethan140wordsmicroblogging,butthisfeatureiscurrentlyopenonlytomembers.Ifthemicro-blogcontentmorethan140characters,thelowerrightcornerwillappearthewords‘fullexpand’,andlongmicrobloggingverysimilar.Microbloggingonwhetherthereshouldbethewordlimit,usersnoconsensus,endorsedbytheparty1thatthewordlimitpreventsexpression,asopposedtothepartybelievesthatthecharacterlimitismicrobloggingcharm.Previously,Twitteralsoannounceditsintentiontocancel140wordlimit,itcanbemadeupto10,000characters,butalsonotyetperformed.Yesterday,SinaWeibopostedfourthquarter2015andfullyearearnings.Reportedmicrobloggingmonthlyactiveusersreached236million,anincreaseof34%activeusersreached106million,anincreaseof32%.By2015Microbloggingtotalrevenue$477.9million,anincreaseof43%,totalprofitof$68.8million.‘Inthemediasectorsincelastyear,openmicrobloggingoperated32verticalareas,microbloggingfromthemediaintorevenuein2015reached250millionyuan.’WeiboCEOWangGaofeirevealedthatin2016,microbloggingontheonehandwillcontinuetoexpandmicrobloggingopenverticalfieldoperations,whileincontentproduction,willprovidemorecontentproductiontoolsfromthemedia,especiallyintheshortvideoandlongtextfields.(Source:BeijingDailyarticle/FanXiao)2