Vadim Lavrusik, Facebook’s journalist program manager, posted on his Facebook page: “Today, we're announcing that you can now write posts with more than 60,000 characters.”
According to Lavrusik, back in September Facebook had increased the character limit its users could post in their status to 5,000 characters. With the new update, Facebook users will have the ability to post a complete novel of roughly half a million characters, in nine posts. Facebook is ranked the third most popular visited website in the Kingdom and the second most visited website in the world according to Alexa.com.
According to the social media monitoring site, there are more than 4 million Facebook users logging in from Saudi Arabia. Twitter users are limited to posts of 140 characters, while those using Google+ have a 100,000 character limit.
The move is seen by many users of social media as a way to show off their blogging skills on Facebook instead of having to host their blogs on different domains. Others felt that the update have taken too long to arrive and wondered whether the website has the ability to compete with other popular social networking websites.
One user commented on Facebook: “Overall this seems like a good thing. Personally, I think it is too early to figure out what use this will have on my usage of Facebook. Plus, updates in technology seem to roll out constantly, so sometimes it’s better to wait and see what comes next, instead of rushing.”
Others wondered whether the change took into consideration that it would be difficult to post substantial status updates using mobile phones.
