Complete guide: Tweetdeck with 280-characters tweets

A few days ago Twitter finally increased the character limit. Doubled it actually, so now, instead of 140, we’ve got 280 characters. Woo-hoo!

It’s not yet available to everyone, but there is a way to enable it in Tweetdeck in few quite simple steps.

1. The code

Copy the code below:

TD.services.TwitterClient.prototype.makeTwitterCall=function(b,e,f,g,c,d,h){c=c||function(){};d=d||function(){};b=this.request(b,{method:f,params:Object.assign(e,{weighted_character_count:!0}),processor:g,feedType:h});return b.addCallbacks(function(a){c(a.data)},function(a){d(a.req,"",a.msg,a.req.errors)}),b};
twttrTxt=Object.assign({},twttr.txt,{isInvalidTweet:function(){return!1},getTweetLength:function(){return twttr.txt.getTweetLength.apply(this,arguments)-140}});

2. Open a Tweetdeck card in your browser

Chrome

Press Ctrl+Shift+i and change a tab from Elements to Sources. You should be able to see a tree with domain names on the right. If you can’t see it, click the rectangle with arrow pointing left at the top of the frame. Click on the chevron (double arrow, pointing right), choose Snippets and New Snippet below. Paste the code into the field at the center and click Ctrl+Enter  or the Play button at the bottom of the frame.

Opera

Press Ctrl+Shift+C and then follow the steps from Chrome.

Edge

Go to the Menu, open developers tool and under the Elements tab, in the console, paste the code and press enter.

Safari

Open the new tweet pane, open the Web Inspector (⌥⌘I), open the Elements tab, copy and paste the code in the code field at the very bottom (after the chevron), press Return, tweet away!

To open the Web Inspector, enable (if needed) the Debug menu from the Advanced tab in Safari settings, and press ⌥⌘I.

Firefox

Right click – Inspect Element. On the console type allow pasting, press enter and then paste the code. Press enter again.

Bugs

Well, yes. The original article doesn’t mention that, but there are major bugs. Major.

• You can’t retweet – no idea why, but you just can’t. You have to open the tweet using permalink and then retweet directly from Twitter.com
• You can’t use DM in columns. To actually send a DM you need to “pull it out” to the main tweet field using the first icon below the tweet field, rounded-corner square with a top-left-pointing arrow. Then you can reply. (OK, replies actually works, when the answer is longer than 140 characters)
• You can’t post a tweet that is exactly 140-characters long. Don’t ask me why – it’s just silly.
• You’ll have to paste the code again after reloading the page or closing the browser. Of course. Even when you’ll save the snippet in Chrome, it won’t show after opening the window again.

Source: 9to5mac