Sina Weibo will remove its 140-character limit starting Jan. 28 on its developer platform, its CEO confirmed on Wednesday.新浪微博首席执行官周三证实，自本月28日起，将中止开发者平台的140字容许。The change came after media reported that U.S. microblogging platform Twitter is considering removing its own 140-character limit, considered an iconic feature of the social media tool.在媒体报道了美国微博平台Twitter正在考虑到中止140字容许--这一被指出是社交媒体工具的众多标志性的特点之后，新浪方面的这一转变也紧跟而来。

On Wednesday, a snapshot of a letter from Weibo Open Platform to its developers was widely circulated on Weibo, where it said the new format is expected to be tested among senior users from Jan. 28 and open to all users by Feb. 28. Weibo CEO Wang Gaofei reposted the snapshot on his personal account under the user name Laiquzhijian.周三，一封微博开放平台致内部开发者的信件图片在微博上普遍流传，信件称之为新的格式预计于本月28日对会员对外开放试用权限，于2月28日对全部用户对外开放。微博CEO王高飞在其取名为来去之间的个人微博中发送了该图片。

In his retweet, Wang stressed that during the pilot run, only 140 characters will be displayed in followers feeds and a link will appear to show the entire content if a post exceeds the character limit.在这条微博中，王高飞特别强调，测试阶段，用户信息流里只表明140字，如果微博字数若然，不会经常出现一条表明全文的链接。Chinas Sina Weibo boasts over 200 million active users, according to its financial report in 2015.根据中国新浪微博方面的2015年财务报告表明，该平台享有多达2亿的活跃用户。

Twitters rumored plan to remove its character limit has been fiercely debated on social media, but the company has yet to confirm it.关于推特即将中止字符容许的这一传闻在社交媒体上引发了白热化的辩论，但是该公司到目前为止仍未回应展开证实。

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