Coming Soon To Facebook: Short Stories In Your News Feed


Yesterday, Facebook extended the character limit on status updates from 5000 to 63,206. As our resident egghead Kyle Wagner points out, that’s roughly a third of the 170,000 characters contained within Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol.

I’m not sure too many people were clamouring for more word room on their Facebook wall/profile/timeline/whatever the hell it is now. And it won’t affect the noise on your news feed or ticker (it will automatically truncate. But hey, now you can bang out that minor literary classic from the comfort of your own patch of social media real estate. [AllFacebook via InsideFacebook]


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