Facebook Status Limit Jumps To 63,206 Characters

Users may love Twitter for its brevity, but now Facebook is taking the opposite approach by increasing the character limit on status updates to a whopping 63,206.

Facebook's Journalist Program Manager Vadim Lavrusik announced the change in a blog post Wednesday:

In September, we increased the character limit on status updates to 5,000 characters. Today, we're announcing that you can now write posts with more than 60,000 characters.

For budding novelists out there, Facebook calculates it would take nine complete status updates to reach the typical novel length of 500,000 characters.

While 60,000 characters may seem like a long status update, ZDNet points out that it still doesn't go as far as Google+, which allows up to 100,000 characters.

Check out the chart below that reveals the history of the social network's status update.

Comments

[dakotanprudle]

04:18 PM on 12/04/2011

Facebook realizes that with so much drama that goes on in peoples lives, more space is needed.

[kinogod]

09:48 AM on 12/04/2011

Now you can not only write about taking that crap no one cares about but you can also dissect its contents for us and tell us all about the corn kernels you found. FB is the DNA milk that powers the cyborg in "alien."

[susanbsbi]

12:12 PM on 12/04/2011

Facebook is trying to compete with Google +; I very seldom write on my facebook page.

[SickHippie]

06:53 AM on 12/03/2011

>tl;dr

[Buck Winthrop]

08:20 PM on 12/02/2011

Well, I can't wait to see the first person to try this one..hmmmm

[BillDodds]

12:49 PM on 12/02/2011

Three drawbacks:

First, in some instances friends are going to see a very early if not first draft. Yikes!

Second, there are going to be a lot of half-done novels floating around out there instead of discreetly tucked away at home.

And third, the writer still must, you know, write all those characters. And do it day after day after day to complete the book.

http://billdodds.blogspot.com/

[dbishop76]

11:24 AM on 12/02/2011

I wonder when the first lawsuit for copyright infringement will happen for stealing a status update.

[dpcemker]

10:11 AM on 12/02/2011

Ha, really.... No one read anything that long unless is post it in the HP and only because there is a good chance something that long is lacking about Cain's infidelities.

[trying this again]

09:39 AM on 12/02/2011

I am just not that interesting.

[kidjudas]

07:57 AM on 12/02/2011

Just what you (don't) want to read...lengthy missives and "creative" writings from people you haven't seen for 20 years whom you wouldn't even recognize in an elevator.

[jachavez]

07:46 AM on 12/02/2011

I'll never write a status anywhere near that long, but it's nice to know I could if I wanted to.
http://realesttalkblog.blogspot.com

[ILoveGreatDanes]

07:37 AM on 12/02/2011

How wonderful! Yet another way for people with FB accounts to stroke their own egos! (eyeroll)

[Otto Olivera]

07:29 AM on 12/02/2011

Excellent! My friends know how long-winded I am, so they better look out, now... Mwahahaha!

[JJ Clark]

07:03 AM on 12/02/2011

tl;dr

[Bob Wagner]

03:58 AM on 12/02/2011

Holy Crap, my friends hate me already.. they are really gonna love this!!

[Golyadkin]

03:21 AM on 12/02/2011

I must use this new power wisely...

I will start by posting the complete text of Moby Dick in my status messages.

[KiltsAreHot]

09:36 AM on 12/02/2011

Do it! I dare you ;)