Facebook has recently decided to limit status updates to 420 characters which are made by other applications, in contrast to Twitter’s 140 character limit. The new rule for limiting the Status Updates was confirmed via a quick post published by Facebook yesterday afternoon, notifying developers of changes to the stream.publish API call.

Now, with this new constrain an application could not publish an attachment or an action link and has to keep the message 420 characters or less. For the update to appear as “Status” update, the above conditions must be fulfilled. The status update appears at the top of the user’s profile and on the Friends > Status Updates page, as well as in the stream (Wall and News Feed) itself. If it includes an attachment or action link, the post gets treated like a regular stream story, and not a status update, so it appears only in the stream.

It seems well to chose an arbitrary number for limiting the updates. Let’s see how changes appear in the updates by applications and what different look does it get to deliver the stuff.

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