Twitter announced early Thursday that it is removing the 140-character limit to its “Direct Messages”. You want to send your mate a Direct Message on Twitter, but you’ve got a lot to say for yourself and you run out of…
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“That is why we have made a number of changes to Direct Messages over the last few months”. Finally realizing the growing influence of instant messages in online communication, Twitter seems to be playing catch up by rolling out new features that it hopes can attract more users to its platform. In addition, DMs sent by SMS will be be subject to the same 140 character limit as before.
In a recent blog post, Agarwal explained that Twitter is primarily a public and social experience, but direct messages enable users to share thoughts on news stories and events privately with other users.
The 140-character limit has been removed across the Twitter platform, which encompasses the Twitter app for iOS, the Twitter app for Android, Twitter.com, TweetDeck, and Twitter for Mac.
However, the removal of character limits could be Twitter’s way of testing the waters to do the same with tweets.
And if you’re wondering how long 10,000 characters is, it’s a lot, for a message. Twitter has from today ended the 140 character limit on Direct Messages.
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“I think that you will definitely see folks being more expressive in general”, product manager for Direct Messages Sachin Agarwal said. And since the start of summer Twitter has implemented several improvements to the service as it looks for a new CEO to replace Dick Costolo. If users link to a vine or a picture, for instance, it will embed, and users can quote tweets without wasting characters on doing so.
