yes,
you have read it right. Now Facebook ups the character limit to above
60000 !!
This
is really Hugh. You can now post long stories and even a novel in
nine posts. I rarely write the blog post of this length. Now I am
thinking to shift my blog to Facebook(just joking!!). But can you
guess why this 63,206 has been chosen. Take a try. Got? Don't worry I
tell you.
Facebook
= Face Boo K => hex(FACE) – K => 64206 – 1000 = 6320.
This
is not first time when Facebook has raised its bar over its post
length. For your information I must tell you that once Facebook had
just 160 characters for the users to offer.
Then
in march 2009, it upgraded to 420 characters. Again in July this year
Facebook raised the character limit to 500 which again exploded to
get 5000 characters two months later in September 2011. And now it
crosses over 60,000, as announced yesterday.
Facebook
is trying to add all sorts of possible features to keep users engage
and can refrain then to go for Google+. After the launch of Google+,
Facebook has added video chat, revamped its interface, improved
friend list, added In-line privacy control and expanded the post's
boundary.
But
do you know where is Google+ in the race of providing better word
count limit for the posts ? Its still far ahead of Facebook. Google+
claims to provide no limit on the word count for the posts. The
interesting battle is going on. No matter who wins, but the profit
will come to the users. Lets wait and watch for the new offering from
the two beasts of Social Networking and keep enjoying the products
coming out of their battle....
