{"id":237066,"date":"2017-11-10T15:13:47","date_gmt":"2017-11-10T13:13:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=237066"},"modified":"2017-11-10T15:16:10","modified_gmt":"2017-11-10T13:16:10","slug":"twitter-expands-display-name-length","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/internet\/237066-twitter-expands-display-name-length.html","title":{"rendered":"Twitter expands display name length"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Twitter has expanded the length of user display names to 50 characters.<\/p>\n<p>The company&#8217;s move comes after it increased the maximum length of tweets to 280 characters.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Go ahead, add that middle name or even a few more emojis,&#8221; said Twitter.<\/p>\n<p>The company <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TwitterSupport\/status\/928777729180254208?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw&amp;ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.engadget.com%2F2017%2F11%2F10%2Ftwitter-expands-display-name-length%2F\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>provided a link<\/strong><\/a> to its support page for users who want to change their display names.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Now read:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/internet\/236916-twitter-stops-broken-verification-tool.html\" rel=\"bookmark\">Twitter stops \u201cbroken\u201d verification tool<\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Twitter has expanded the length of user display names to 50 characters.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":144773,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[405],"class_list":["post-237066","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-internet","tag-twitter"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237066"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=237066"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237066\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":237068,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237066\/revisions\/237068"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/144773"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=237066"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=237066"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=237066"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}