However you may feel about Twitter’s pivot to testing 280-character limits for tweets, you may be wondering when you’ll get the chance to test the change yourself.

If you’re feeling a bit impatient, don’t worry! There’s a way to tweet with 280 characters now even if your account hasn’t been tapped by Twitter for testing. 

Twitter on Wednesday, September 27 (Philippine time), announced it was testing a new 280-character limit for tweets to allow people to express themselves with twice the character length of a normal tweet.

The company said, however, that the test will only reach a small amount of users at the moment. No specific release date has also been pinpointed for the change. 

If you’d like to try how it would be like to tweet with double the amount of characters now, Twitter user @Prof9, as reported by The Verge, has created a script that leaps over the 140-character limit.

Below is an easy step-by-step guide to do it. Just click on the links and find the right button to install it: 

1) Download userscript manager Tampermonkey for Chrome here. Click the “Add To Chrome” button.

2) Download @Prof9’s script here on Github – a website where developers can upload scripts and codes for open-source collaboration with the rest of the world.

3) On the Github page, click the “raw” button. You’ll be redirected to a Tampermonkey page. Click on the “install” button found on that page. 

4) Go to Twitter and tweet away! The character counter still shows the 140-character limit but type away, and you’ll see that you can now reach 280 characters. 

The Verge also assures that the process is safe. “Tampermonkey is a widely used userscript manager, and the javascript is a harmless workaround that simply bypasses the tweet button limit,” said the website. 

Other than this, one can wait to be chosen for Twitter’s test program or for the wide rollout, barring an unlikely u-turn from Twitter. – Rappler.com