Have you ever had a really intense discussion with someone on Twitter through DM, but the flow keeps getting interrupted since you are still limited to 140 characters per message? Well, aside from moving your conversation elsewhere, you had no choice back then, but come July, you’ll finally be able to send someone a really, really long private message on the micro-blogging network. Meanwhile, after much pressure from investors, Dick Costolo has stepped down as CEO.
While Twitter users are still increasing even after 9 years of existence, the problem has been how to monetize from those hundreds of millions of people who have signed up to use the service. That was one of the major pressure points on Costolo, who faced calls from investors to step down on several occasions. Finally, he has done so but will still remain as part of the Board of Directors. Twitter co-founder who is also the chairman of the board will be the interim CEO, at least until they find a replacement.
Meanwhile, Twitter will finally allow you to write Direct Messages of up to 10,000 characters. Now unless you’re actually sending a book to the person you’re talking to, you probably won’t need all those extra characters, but it’s good to know that you have that option. This new feature will start by July so that all other third-party apps will be able to adjust their products to this new development. Twitter has released the API already and given instructions to the developers on what they can and should do to accommodate the change.
But if you think that this is already a sign that Twitter will also eventually relax their 140-character limit on public messages, think again. Sachin Agarwal, the product manager for Direct Messages says that this will absolutely not have an effect on your tweets.
VIA: SlashGear
