{"id":2279,"date":"2021-09-16T16:07:06","date_gmt":"2021-09-16T07:07:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/?p=2279"},"modified":"2021-09-16T16:41:21","modified_gmt":"2021-09-16T07:41:21","slug":"20210916-2279","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/news\/20210916-2279\/","title":{"rendered":"Nintendo Switch now lets you make longer tweets, though it didn\u2019t make much of an impact on Japanese audience"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>Publication date of the <a href=\"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/articles\/newsjp\/20210916-175927\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">original Japanese article<\/a>: 2021-09-16 13:23 (JST)<br>Translated by. Ryuki Ishii<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><br>The latest firmware update (13.0.0) for Nintendo Switch includes Bluetooth audio support and \u201cMaintain Internet Connection in Sleep Mode\u201d among other new features. What we didn\u2019t notice at first, is the change made to the character limit of Twitter integration. Although it was not mentioned in the patch note, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=LxIwFq8GPjQ\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">GameXplain<\/a> noticed the silent update. Simply put, you can now make longer tweets from Nintendo Switch.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Back in 2017, Twitter\u2019s character limit for single-byte character sets changed from 140 to 280. However, the character limit for Nintendo Switch\u2019s Twitter function remained the same (meaning, 140) until now. The users of \/r\/NintendoSwitch subreddit have been asking for 280-character support for a long time, and now, after nearly 4 years, Nintendo has finally addressed the issue.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-reddit wp-block-embed-reddit\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"reddit-embed-bq\" style=\"height:316px\" ><a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/NintendoSwitch\/comments\/7df3xi\/even_though_twitter_now_supports_280_characters\/\">Even though Twitter now supports 280 characters, the Switch still only lets you use 140<\/a><br> by<a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/user\/_Keeko\/\">u\/_Keeko<\/a> in<a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/NintendoSwitch\/\">NintendoSwitch<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/embed.reddit.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"UTF-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Many Nintendo Switch users are rejoiced by the change, and you can see their enthusiastic reactions on <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/search?q=Switch%20280%20lang%3Aen&amp;src=typed_query&amp;f=live\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Twitter<\/a>. However, the reactions from Japanese users were modest at best. This is because the change applies to single-byte characters only. Tweet limit for multi-byte characters like Japanese has always been 140 ever since the inception of Twitter, so the latest firmware update didn\u2019t make as big of an impact as it did on people who mainly use single-byte character sets.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Although Japanese people mainly use multi-byte characters, they mix in single-byte characters as well. 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