While Facebook is not a company known for pot jokes, the company has decided to limit status updates posted through applications to 420 characters, in contrast to Twitter’s 140 character limit. The status message length was confirmed via a quick post published by Facebook this afternoon, notifying developers of changes to the stream.publish API call.
Due to complications, any status updates that include attachments will be published as general stream stories and will not have the status updated at the top of a user’s profile. While Facebook has limited status updates to 420 characters for some time now, this is the first time we’ve seen Facebook publicly acknowledge the limit. Makes one wonder when this limit was imposed and how it was determined.
My guess is that it was an arbitrary number but one would imagine it was somewhat of a youthful decision to chose this limit. Rather than dwelling on the status update length, I’ll let any developers go check out the stream.publish API documentation.
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Hah. I noticed this two nights ago. The max character count in comments on status updates is 8,000 characters.
http://www.facebook.com/RobLaughter?v=wall&st...
Comment by Rob Laughter — April 8, 2010 @ 12:39 pm
What's the point? I think it's stupid and doesn't let people express themselves to their fullest. Wait, I'd better keep this comment short. Alloffacebook might follow suit.
Comment by Glenn Arcaro — April 8, 2010 @ 2:32 pm
Um… I noticed this several weeks ago. This has been in place for a while.
Comment by Tom Ditmars — April 8, 2010 @ 3:47 pm
Haven't noticed it at all, perhaps I'm due to check in…lol
Comment by Wayne John — April 8, 2010 @ 8:41 pm
I never noticed about marjuana,,,I had to be careful and not to click on any adv or commericals. Since I played on some games like farmville,etc, they asked me for my credit accounts.. I was scared. Now I avoided them. It was great to get in touch with old friends and relatives, The messages are good. Well there were many scams on facebook and twister too thats why I didnt open the Twister for long time. Now I had to be careful with Facebook.
Comment by Kathleen Hard — April 9, 2010 @ 2:39 am
i don’t like put a long status…
Comment by bee — April 9, 2010 @ 12:13 pm
I had noticed this had started a while back on fanpages… too bad because it made facebook stand out more.
Comment by Kathy Cook Colaiacovo — April 9, 2010 @ 12:32 pm
It's not the end of the world! I figured out a way to update status on Facebook in more than 420 characters. Click here to know how
Trick To Bypass Facebook’s 420 Characters Status Update Limit
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Comment by Pulkit Kaushik — October 22, 2010 @ 1:27 am