Say goodbye to the 140-character limit on Twitter; the 280-character format is now official.

On Tuesday, the company rolled out the expanded character limit to most languages, saying it makes tweeting easier.

Not everyone may like this change, but Twitter claims the 280-character limit doesn't actually compel users to write long, cluttered-looking tweets, as many critics feared.

"As a result, your timeline reading experience should not substantially change," Twitter product manager Aliza Rosen wrote in a blog post.

In September, Twitter began testing the new character limit on a small group of users and discovered only 1 percent of their tweets ever reached the 280-character limit. That's down from the 9 percent Twitter saw when the character limit was at 140. In addition, users generally kept their tweets brief even with the 280-character limit, according to Rosen.

"Only 5 percent of Tweets sent were longer than 140 characters and only 2 percent were over 190 characters," she said.

Test users who had the chance to abuse the 280-character limit certainly did at first, producing absurdly long tweets. But the novelty didn't last, and users reverted back to normal tweeting behaviors, Rosen said.

Users who participated in the tests also approved, and said they felt more satisfied in how they could express themselves on Twitter, Rosen added. Longer tweets also tend to attract more engagement, such as likes and retweets, according to Twitter.

But despite the company's reasons for the change, not everyone is welcoming the new format.

Everyone: "How is Twitter going to stop all of the abuse and harassment?"

Twitter: "We're going to increase the character limit to 280 characters in a tweet" pic.twitter.com/baizsP2Lhz — Austin (@AustinCTweets) November 7, 2017

If everyone has #280characters, does this mean...

OH GOD. pic.twitter.com/T1Am08DIIZ — Mike Gibbs ???‍?? (@Mikeggibbs) November 7, 2017

To implement the new format, Twitter is including a tiny circle icon in the tweet composer that'll turn dark blue, and then yellow, as you write more characters, and then red when the limit is reached.

The 280-character limit will apply to all languages except Chinese, Japanese and Korean. These languages can express entire words with one character and haven't had problems with cramming, according to Twitter.

For users still resistant to the change, Twitter says it'll continue to listen for feedback.