Hi there,
You can deactivate this with a little work behind the scenes, by going to the last block of code in the file public.js in the plugin folder; you’ll probably have to use the cpanel for your site to access the files.
Once there, you’ll see some jquery code for the character limit; you can change the character limit to whatever you’d like (just look for the 280) or comment the whole section out by typing /* before the first line (right after’//Character Limit’) and then typing */ on the last line, immediately after the final }) that closes the code block.
Changing the character limit has been tested and should not produce any problems; disabling it entirely *shouldn’t* be problematic, but we haven’t tested that, so no guarantees!
Hope this helps!