140
Item media 2 screenshot
Item media 1 screenshot
Item media 2 screenshot
Item media 1 screenshot
Item media 1 screenshot
Item media 2 screenshot

Overview

Restrict your tweets to 140 characters—and truncate all tweets in your feed to that same perfect length.

Twitter users are stretching their wings in the new 280-character sky, and the result is a real mess. Maybe someday you’ll delight in Twitter’s logorrheic future, but right now you want your timeline to chill out a little. And what about when YOU tweet?! Now that your trusty character counter has been replaced by an inscrutable circle, how do you keep yourself from accidentally exceeding 140 characters, the proper maximum length for tweets? Twitter, we have to go back!! Thankfully, Slate’s developers are here to save the day. Install our new Chrome extension, 140, and keep the horrifying world of 280-character Twitter at bay for a bit longer. If you’re visiting Twitter in Chrome, 140 will cut everyone’s tweets down to 140 characters. And better yet, 140 will restrict your tweets to 140 characters, too. Is it perfect? Definitely not. We whipped it up in one night. URLs don’t always look great, and pasting text into a tweet can screw up your character count. But the result is nonetheless a much chiller experience on twitter dot com. Eventually (in an hour?) Twitter will find a way to circumvent our extension, we’re sure. The army of progress marches forever forward, burning everything good in the world and salting the earth behind it. But for now, use Slate’s 140 to make Twitter great again.

4 out of 55 ratings

Google doesn't verify reviews. Learn more about results and reviews.

Review's profile picture

e vFeb 22, 2020

it does truncate tweets (though i wish i could turn that off), and *sometimes* stops me at 140 characters, but not always. i wish it would always stop me, and i also very much want a character counter, like twitter had before it added the horrible circle thing. (if the character count feature ever did get added, i would love if it could be compatible with the goodtwitter extension, to truly restore the authentic twitter experience.)

Review's profile picture

Daniel KirsanoffDec 27, 2017

Works and does what it's supposed to. I wish the clickable area to reveal the full tweet was bigger than just the small red X. It's small enough to make it annoying trying to position my mouse over it. Also just noticed that when you try to quote a tweet it truncates the quoted tweet which kind of defeats the purpose.

1 person found this review to be helpful

Details

  • Version
    0.0.3
  • Updated
    December 29, 2017
  • Offered by
    Slate Magazine
  • Size
    46.87KiB
  • Languages
    English
  • Developer
    Slate Magazine
    1707 L St NW 8th floor Washington, DC 20036 USA
    Email
    admin.contact@slate.com
  • Non-trader
    This developer has not identified itself as a trader. For consumers in the European Union, please note that consumer rights do not apply to contracts between you and this developer.

Privacy

The developer has not provided any information about the collection or usage of your data. To learn more, see the developer’s privacy policy.

Support

Related

Twitter Font Fix

4.3(6)

Makes the font size same for all tweets on the new Twitter profile pages.

Looong Tweet

1.0(1)

Looong Tweet allows you to tweet longer tweets from Twitter

Twitter Toolbox

2.0(1)

Provides several tools to change the Twitter website to suit you.

Twitter Star

4.3(7)

Return of the Twitter Tweet Star

Twitter.com Optimized for Chrome

4.8(12)

Just fixing some common performance bottleneck annoyances on Twitter.com. Enjoy smooth scrolling at 60FPS! #ThankMeLater

Imgur Twitter cards

5.0(1)

Load imgur images from twitter cards

Fix Twitter

3.7(7)

Fix dumb things about Twitter and TweetDeck on the web (e.g. hidden “replying to”, t.co links)

Open All Trends

0.0(0)

Opens all Twitter trends in a new tab with a single click.

Whom to follow for Twitter

4.6(53)

This extension corrects Twitter's "Who to follow" to "Whom to follow".

Twitter Stars

4.2(13)

Changes the new Twitter 'Like' heart back to the original 'Favorite' star!

Paridae

4.1(20)

Make twitter.com more responsive (previously named Responsive Twitter)

280 Twitter Counter

0.0(0)

Adds the 280 character counter into your tweet form and provides the opportunity to show or hide the circle.

Twitter Font Fix

4.3(6)

Makes the font size same for all tweets on the new Twitter profile pages.

Looong Tweet

1.0(1)

Looong Tweet allows you to tweet longer tweets from Twitter

Twitter Toolbox

2.0(1)

Provides several tools to change the Twitter website to suit you.

Twitter Star

4.3(7)

Return of the Twitter Tweet Star

Twitter.com Optimized for Chrome

4.8(12)

Just fixing some common performance bottleneck annoyances on Twitter.com. Enjoy smooth scrolling at 60FPS! #ThankMeLater

Imgur Twitter cards

5.0(1)

Load imgur images from twitter cards

Fix Twitter

3.7(7)

Fix dumb things about Twitter and TweetDeck on the web (e.g. hidden “replying to”, t.co links)

Open All Trends

0.0(0)

Opens all Twitter trends in a new tab with a single click.

Google apps