Wp-calypso: Publicize: change custom message length to 280 chars now that Twitter supports it

[jeherve]

Steps to reproduce

1. Starting at URL: https://wordpress.com/post/
2. If you've connected a Social Media account to your site, you will see the following box:

Since Twitter now supports more characters, it would be nice to expand the limit accordingly:
https://blog.twitter.com/official/en_us/topics/product/2017/tweetingmadeeasier.html

Related: https://github.com/Automattic/jetpack/issues/8134

[KokkieH]

We've already had several requests for this via Twitter. Naturally.

[darnelldibbles]

Another request:

https://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/publicize-to-twitter-280-characters?replies=1#add-note

[supernovia]

https://twitter.com/robilaz/status/930934602260271106

[jeherve]

Related: D8438-code

[vindl]

@jeherve beat me to it, I started something similar in D8439-code. :)

[lamdayap]

request here: 811582-zen

[jeherve]

Also in 834293-zen

[jesscga]

Also 604791-hc

[pmciano]

Reported in the forums

[nielslange]

Yet another one: 1325093-hc

[arunsathiya]

@pmciano According to that forum post, the new update is not working as expected

Can anyone confirm if this update is available for all users, and is it working as expected? Thanks.

[jeherve]

@arunsathiya

Can anyone confirm if this update is available for all users, and is it working as expected?

It is not yet available. We will update and close this issue when it is.

[lancewillett]

Just came by to 👍 this — can't wait until it's in. Now that I can make longer Twitter messages it feels like the Calypso UI is broken.

[arunsathiya]

@jeherve To make sure we are on the same page, I just had a look at the Publicize section on my self-hosted WordPress (WordPress.org) site, connected to my WordPress.com dashboard.

It initially shows "55 characters remaining". When I type the first character though, it immediately shows "93 characters remaining"

This is an indication that it seems to be available, maybe unintentionally? If this is not ready for public consumption, why do I see it?

[KokkieH]

@arunsathiya the Publicize description is pre-populated with your post title and link, and shows remaining characters based on that. If you start typing your own description, the pre-added post title is removed, so that's where the additional characters come from. If you have more questions about how Publicize currently works, I think a new forum thread would be a more appropriate place for discussion than this issue. Feel free to start a new thread and tag it for staff and we'll help you there.

[jeherve]

This is an indication that it seems to be available, maybe unintentionally? If this is not ready for public consumption, why do I see it?

@arunsathiya This was changed in Jetpack in https://github.com/Automattic/jetpack/pull/8219, but unfortunately we made the change a bit too early as the part of Publicize that lives on WordPress.com is not ready to be deployed yet.

We'll update this issue once the 280 chars are available everywhere, for everyone.

[supernovia]

Another request here: https://twitter.com/DrkwingDuck/status/949687806611378176