Nope, the limit is based on characters and increasing that limit would only mean sending more data back and forth.  

Yeah...increase the characters is what I mean.  

staff should just consider allowing us to use the iframe HTML tag in our statuses, nothing but could come out of that  

Posted by Dusty

Nope, the limit is based on characters and increasing that limit would only mean sending more data back and forth.

Come to think of it... do statuses use the most data?
When someone doesn't have any text on their status, do they still send data?  

Posted by LeNoobicus

I need my status to look like a warzone, please extend it, just like my... ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)

I guess yours is pretty small.