Facebook increase character limit to 60,000; takes swipe at Google+’s blogging platform

While it hasn’t set the world alight, one of the positive aspects of Google+ is that when you’re writing a update, there isn’t a character limit or at least the character limit is incredibly high.

This has meant that users see it as a more social platform for blogging and use it accordingly. This means that – depending on who you’re following – user’s posts tend to be more thoughtful and fleshed out, or republish their posts onto the site and monitor the reaction from there.

But anything Google+ can do, Facebook can do better with Facebook’s Journalism Program Manager Vadim Lavrusik announcing that they’ve increased their character limit from 5,000 to 60,000. While this mightn’t seem like a massive change, it is a swipe at Google+’s emerging trend of blogging on the social media site, allowing Facebook users to do the same while they’re logged in.

Whether this catches on the same way as Google+, we won’t know until some time has passed. But since Facebook already have a massive userbase for writers and bloggers to reach out to (as is pointed out on a regular basis), there’s bound to be a significant number who will use the character increase to publish their blogs and content on the site.

The previous increase occurred back in September when they increased the limit from 500 to 5,000 back in February.