# Twitter Onebox generally truncates text

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/twitter-onebox-generally-truncates-text/57600
**Category:** UX
**Created:** [February 18, 2017, 5:30pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/twitter-onebox-generally-truncates-text/57600 "2017-02-18T17:30:29Z")
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### Author: ![ChrisBeach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/chrisbeach/32/214628_2.png) [@ChrisBeach](https://meta.discourse.org/u/ChrisBeach)
#### Post date: [February 18, 2017, 5:30pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/twitter-onebox-generally-truncates-text/57600/1 "2017-02-18T17:30:29Z")

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Seems a shame to truncate tweets when they’re guaranteed to be less than 160 chars? Could the Twitter Onebox be made to allow more text?

 ![](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/3X/5/3/53ede0d0e3b72c205541c9062b09e646ee3db6db.png)

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### Author: ![codinghorror](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/codinghorror/32/110067_2.png) [@codinghorror](https://meta.discourse.org/u/codinghorror)
#### Post date: [February 18, 2017, 9:27pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/twitter-onebox-generally-truncates-text/57600/2 "2017-02-18T21:27:22Z")

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This is exactly what is returned by the Twitter API. We have looked at this before.