diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index a6de588..bc1b753 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -2,11 +2,12 @@
 
 All notable changes to this project will be documented in this file, in reverse chronological order by release.
 
-## 3.0.2 - TBD
+## 3.0.2 - 2017-11-21
 
 ### Added
 
-- Nothing.
+- [#55](https://github.com/zendframework/ZendService_Twitter/pull/55) adds
+  support for 280-character tweets.
 
 ### Changed
 
diff --git a/TODO.md b/TODO.md
index ed4773d..9f73a08 100644
--- a/TODO.md
+++ b/TODO.md
@@ -71,9 +71,3 @@ The following is a list of Twitter API methods not yet implemented:
 - users/suggestions
 - users/suggestions/:slug
 - users/suggestions/:slug/members
-
-## Fixes/functionality updates
-
-- Use `Normalizer` class to get normalized string, and then use that to count
-  number of characters for purpose of string lengths.
-- Update allowed status length to 280 characters.
diff --git a/src/Twitter.php b/src/Twitter.php
index 30c1ebd..b862a57 100644
--- a/src/Twitter.php
+++ b/src/Twitter.php
@@ -8,6 +8,7 @@
 namespace ZendService\Twitter;
 
 use Closure;
+use Normalizer;
 use Traversable;
 use ZendOAuth as OAuth;
 use Zend\Http;
@@ -19,6 +20,15 @@
  *
  * Note: most `$id` parameters accept either string or integer values. This is
  * due to the fact that identifiers in the Twitter API may exceed PHP_INT_MAX.
+ *
+ * Note on character counting: Twitter accepts UTF-8 encoded text via the API,
+ * and counts multi-byte characters as a single character. PHP's strlen(),
+ * however, treats each byte as a character for purposes of determing the
+ * string length. To get around that, we can pass the message to utf8_decode,
+ * which will replace any multi-byte characters with a `?`; this works fine
+ * for counting lengths.
+ *
+ * @see https://developer.twitter.com/en/docs/basics/counting-characters
  */
 class Twitter
 {
@@ -42,14 +52,9 @@ class Twitter
     ];
 
     /**
-     * 246 is the current limit for a status message, 140 characters are displayed
-     * initially, with the remainder linked from the web UI or client. The limit is
-     * applied to a html encoded UTF-8 string (i.e. entities are counted in the limit
-     * which may appear unusual but is a security measure).
-     *
-     * This should be reviewed in the future...
+     * As of November 2017, the character limit for status messages is 280.
      */
-    const STATUS_MAX_CHARACTERS = 246;
+    const STATUS_MAX_CHARACTERS = 280;
 
     /**
      * @var array
@@ -586,7 +591,7 @@ public function directMessagesEventsNew($user, string $text, array $extraParams
     {
         $path = 'direct_messages/events/new';
 
-        $len = iconv_strlen($text, 'UTF-8');
+        $len = strlen(utf8_decode($text));
         if (0 === $len) {
             throw new Exception\InvalidArgumentException(
                 'Direct message must contain at least one character'
@@ -980,7 +985,7 @@ public function searchTweets(string $query, array $options = []) : Response
     {
         $path = 'search/tweets';
 
-        $len = iconv_strlen($query, 'UTF-8');
+        $len = strlen(utf8_decode($query));
         if (0 == $len) {
             throw new Exception\InvalidArgumentException(
                 'Query must contain at least one character'
@@ -1260,13 +1265,13 @@ public function statusesShow($id, array $options = []) : Response
     public function statusesUpdate(string $status, $inReplyToStatusId = null, $extraAttributes = []) : Response
     {
         $path = 'statuses/update';
-        $len = iconv_strlen(htmlspecialchars($status, ENT_QUOTES, 'UTF-8'), 'UTF-8');
+        $len = strlen(utf8_decode($status));
         if ($len > self::STATUS_MAX_CHARACTERS) {
-            throw new Exception\OutOfRangeException(
-                'Status must be no more than '
-                . self::STATUS_MAX_CHARACTERS
-                . ' characters in length'
-            );
+            throw new Exception\OutOfRangeException(sprintf(
+                'Status must be no more than %d characters in length; received %d',
+                self::STATUS_MAX_CHARACTERS,
+                $len
+            ));
         } elseif (0 == $len) {
             throw new Exception\InvalidArgumentException(
                 'Status must contain at least one character'
@@ -1392,7 +1397,7 @@ public function usersSearch(string $query, array $options = []) : Response
     {
         $path = 'users/search';
 
-        $len = iconv_strlen($query, 'UTF-8');
+        $len = strlen(utf8_decode($query));
         if (0 == $len) {
             throw new Exception\InvalidArgumentException(
                 'Query must contain at least one character'
diff --git a/test/TwitterTest.php b/test/TwitterTest.php
index a2cfc5c..3106945 100644
--- a/test/TwitterTest.php
+++ b/test/TwitterTest.php
@@ -485,6 +485,20 @@ public function testPostStatusUpdateToLongShouldThrowException()
         $twitter->statuses->update('Test Message - ' . str_repeat(' Hello ', 140));
     }
 
+    public function testStatusUpdateShouldAllow280CharactersOfUTF8Encoding()
+    {
+        $message = str_repeat('é', 280);
+        $twitter = new Twitter\Twitter;
+        $twitter->setHttpClient($this->stubOAuthClient(
+            'statuses/update.json',
+            Http\Request::METHOD_POST,
+            'statuses.update.json',
+            ['status' => $message]
+        ));
+        $response = $twitter->statuses->update($message);
+        $this->assertInstanceOf(TwitterResponse::class, $response);
+    }
+
     public function testPostStatusUpdateEmptyShouldThrowException()
     {
         $this->expectException(Twitter\Exception\ExceptionInterface::class);