Fb increases max status update to 63,206 Characters

In July 2011, Facebook already stretched the limit to 500 characters, followed by an increase to 5,000 in September. 

i.e. you can post status updates that are roughly equivalent to:

• 32 pages (the size of a standard picture book)
• 8800 words
• A 9th of a standard novel
• 451 maxed out Tweets

Facebook engineer Bob Baldwin explains: “I set the exact limit to something nerdy. Facebook … Face Boo K … hex(FACE) – K … 64206 – 1000 = 63206 :-).”