On Tuesday, Twitter doubled its character limit to 280 from the previous 140 for the majority of the social media platform's users ... and to say Arabs are annoyed is a bit of an understatement. 

The update was first put to the test in September. Since then, only 5 percent of tweets published during that period exceeded the original 140 character limit. 

Turns out, people don't actually want it, but Twitter has decided to give its users the option anyway.

What do Arabs have to say?

Testing, testing

Conversations revolved around one thing: 280 character tweets

"If you think 280 characters is bad in English, in Arabic you can write a whole opinion column in 280 characters"

"This is NOT fun. Go to Facebook if you wanna tell your life story"

Just more words "I'll never read"

Because "I came here to laugh, not to read"

"280 characters seems like A HELL OF A LOT of text now"

Some are just stubborn, cutting their own tweets just to make a point

*My eyes hurt*

Adios Twitter!

"It should not be called a tweet anymore"

You can now tweet song lyrics ... the horror!

More & more lyrics ...

#280characters = Falsafe 101

An evil reminder ...

"What could possibly go wrong with a 280 character limit????"