[Bug 1730927] Re: Support the new 280 character limit.

[Simon Quigley]

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Title:
  Support the new 280 character limit.

Status in corebird package in Ubuntu:
  Fix Released
Status in corebird source package in Artful:
  Confirmed

Bug description:
  [Impact]

   * Twitter changed the character limit of tweets to 280 [1], users of
     corebird in artful are only able to compose tweets with 140 characters.

   * Backporting the fix to the stable release is necessary to incorporate
     changes of Twitters web service.

  [Test Case]

   * Open corebird, login with your twitter account

   * Try to compose a tweet with 280 characters

   * Result: Without the patch only 140 characters are possible

  [Regression Potential]

   * I don't see any regression potential, only one constant in the source code
     is changed and the same change is applied upstream[2] for weeks now with
     no reported bug.

  [1]
  https://blog.twitter.com/official/en_us/topics/product/2017/tweetingmadeeasier.html

  [2]
  https://github.com/baedert/corebird/commit/d3cc0b068b4f3b1d0d97e4bd7c9e723d002636c1

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