Somewhere around 2016 and update to the app came out that reduced the number of characters users could have in their profiles. I remember distinctly not updating my profile because it would mean needing to trim quite a bit out.

Yeah that’s probably has to do with the way the string information is encoded in your database. But if you think about it, get more characters for a tweet than you do for the profile text. A tweet gets more. A TWEET. Imagine trying to catch someone’s attention by just sending out a single tweet. Is that seriously enough to describe yourself? If you had more space to describe yourself, or to describe what you want or don’t want to, you might even see a decrease in the amount of potentially offensive text, such as “No xyz.” The inclusion of tags in the profile to help describe yourself is great. But even they are kind of limited and I’ve run into cases where user isn’t using them to describe themselves but rather what they want.