The social media giant will now allow Direct Messages of up to 10,000 characters via its desktop and mobile apps and the web.
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Update: A little behind schedule, Twitter announced that the official demise of the 140-character DM limit will begin rolling out today, August 12.
Two months ago, Twitter told us that it would soon be removing its 140-character limit from direct messages. So, go ahead and really say what’s on your mind.
Twitter first announced it planned to remove the 140 character limit on DMs back in June, but the company is finally implementing the change across its website, iOS and Android apps, Twitter for Mac, and TweetDeck. “So, start working on those sonnets”, Twitter’s blog post also offered.
The new DMs, which are intended to be of effectively unlimited length for the typical user, are part of the company’s long-running effort to upgrade its messaging service to make it a more competitive alternative to market leaders such as Facebook’s WhatsApp and Messenger apps.
Sachin Agarwal, product manager for Direct Messages at the firm, said: “I think that you will definitely see folks being more expressive in general”.
However, sending and receiving DMs via SMS will still be limited to 140 characters.
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“Messaging is very familiar to users; we’ve been using messaging in a number of ways for years, and we think it’s just a really great compliment to the public side of Twitter”, he said.
