{"id":407785,"date":"2017-09-27T17:30:00","date_gmt":"2017-09-27T09:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.engadget.com\/2017\/09\/27\/twitter-workarounds-280-characters-tweet\/21|23224304"},"modified":"2017-09-27T17:30:00","modified_gmt":"2017-09-27T09:30:00","slug":"twitter-workarounds-give-anyone-280-characters-to-play-with","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/twitter-workarounds-give-anyone-280-characters-to-play-with\/","title":{"rendered":"Twitter workarounds give anyone 280 characters to play with"},"content":{"rendered":"
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From @dildog<\/a>:
Click ‘Tweet’ in the web ui
F12 Remove ‘disable’ on the tweet button
Click it, and go to ‘network’, right click on the request and copy as cURL
Then, add &weighted_character_count=true as a param to the end of the url
Then, resubmit the tweet with curl.<\/p>\n

\u2014 Rob Graham\u0669(\u25cf\u032e\u032e\u0303\u25cf\u0303) (@ErrataRob) September 27, 2017<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

User @ErrataRob<\/a> posted one of the techniques (via @dildog<\/a>), which involves meddling with the Chrome browser. As you can tell from the thread above, this method requires a bit of legwork. But, there is an easier way.<\/p>\n

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Here’s a quick TamperMonkey script that force enables 280 character tweets in the Twitter web client.https:\/\/t.co\/uUhW0CKekS<\/a><\/p>\n

\u2014 Prof. 9 (@Prof9) September 27, 2017<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Twitter user @prof9<\/a> tweeted a link to a Tampermonkey script for Chrome that’s much easier to set up, and offers the same result: Longer tweets. To get it working, first install Tampermonkey<\/a>, and then head to this Github repository<\/a> and click the raw button to install the script. Be sure to enable it in Tampermonkey, and then hit up Twitter.com and tweet away. All the current methods<\/a> floating around are related to the Twitter web client. And, you’ll probably have to be quick, as Twitter is likely scrambling to find a fix.<\/p>\n

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Hey, notice anything different? Yep, this tweet is 280 characters, instead of the 140 you get as standard. And, icyw, I’m not one of the chosen few that gets to try this out as part of Twitter’s latest experiment. Nah, I just did some simple DIY thanks to a userscript in Chrome<\/p>\n

\u2014 Saqib Shah (@eightiethmnt) September 27, 2017<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

From @dildog:Click ‘Tweet’ in the web uiF12 Remove ‘disable’ on the tweet buttonClick it, and go to ‘network’, right click on the request and copy as cURLThen, add &weighted_character_count=true as a param to the end of the urlThen, resubmit the tweet with curl. \u2014 Rob Graham\u0669(\u25cf\u032e\u032e\u0303\u25cf\u0303) (@ErrataRob) September 27, 2017 User @ErrataRob posted one of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5817,"featured_media":407786,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[27,59,26],"class_list":["post-407785","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-media","tag-engadget","tag-media","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/407785","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5817"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=407785"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/407785\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/407786"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=407785"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=407785"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=407785"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}