Twitter officially drops 140-character limit

[neharani]

Twitter users can officially send one another direct messages topping 140 characters starting Wednesday. Twitter is phasing in the change across Android, iOS and web-based platforms on Wednesday, lasting over the next few weeks. Instead of 140 characters, the social network previously said in June the new character maximum would be 10,000.

[smita89]

It's trying to make Twitter more appealing overall, following recent months of slow user growth, management upheaval and questions about the company's longevity.

[MiniGupta]

After expanding the direct message (DM) function earlier this year to allow group messages, and then again to allow messaging between users that don't follow each other, the newest change (which was originally flagged to developers in June) will let users transition from short public messages to longer private ones without having to switch to a messaging app or email.

[NehaChandaliya]

Twitter product manager Sachin Agarwal announced the official start of support for longer private tweets, but gave no indication that we should expect the character limit on public tweets to change any time soon.

[sonia sharma]

The new limit for DMs is technically 10,000 characters, but you'd have to be pretty keen to hit that. Public tweets will retain their 140-character limit.