November 9, 2017, Twitter did a good thing. (Insert stopped clock metaphor.) They increased the character count of their name field from twenty characters to fifty. Their reasoning for this is there are places and cultures where people have much longer names than in the US, where Twitter was born. (Of course it took them over ten years to realize this.) If you’re designing for a global audience, you need to design not for, but with, that global audience. For the record, all the Twitter founders’ names fit within the original twenty character limit. Had there been someone on that team from a
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