Those full posts don’t have a limit. It’s the Micro.blog timeline that encourages the 280-character limit to make the timeline as readable as possible, not cluttered with long posts or “read more” links.
— Manton Reece, Rounding up to 300 characters
Seeing the bump to 600 happen in the counter is awesome. This is a very good change to Micro.blog. :)

Simon Woods
@SimonWoods