It is common knowledge for Twitter users that a tweet can only have 140 characters on it.

But au contraire, a recent Twitter bug shows that users can post up to 3,000 characters, maybe even more.

The bug was reported in the Twitter Development Talk Google Group by forumer Chris White. He posted a step-by-step procedure of how to exceed the 140 character limit that the social networking site has. He said that when you go directly to the Twitter Share URL (http://twitter.com/share?url=) in your Firefox browser, and type your text after the “url=” then you could type as many characters as you want.

For example: “http://twitter.com/share?url=Gadgetepoint is the best place for the coolest and hippest gadgets, And what’s even better is that they deliver right at your doorstep. Check out the website and prepare to be excited”. If you type this in the URL after you log-in, you’ll be able to make this your status message even if the truthful statement is more than 140 characters.

But such “feature” or “bug”, depends on how you see it, wouldn’t be there for a long time as Twitter employee John Adams thanked Chris White online for exposing the said bug and stated that, “I filed a bug with our webclient team,” Expect that this feature or bug will no longer be available in the near future.

That’s too bad. If you the above message can’t be posted in Twitter anymore, you might as well try to see if the statement is correct by visiting Gadgetepoint.