Last June, Twitter announced that they are removing the 140-character limit on Direct Messages as part of their continuing improvement to that private aspect of the micro-blogging network. Initially, this was supposed to have materialized last month, but for one reason or another, it never did push through. But now, they have officially announced that the character limit has indeed been removed so now you can have long conversations with your friends or even just people you met over Twitter.
While Twitter will continue to be primarily a public space where people can just join conversations, or even just talk to themselves or the void as a form of self-expression, there is also a growing community that talks amongst themselves using the DM feature. But conversations tend to be stilted if you have to send long messages in parts. So removing the character limit will make the discussion (or flirting, if that’s what you’re doing) flow more freely. Mind you, it’s still limited to 10,000 characters, but that should be more than enough, unless you’re sending a novel to that person.
This change doesn’t affect the public side of Twitter. Yes, you still have to stay within the 140-character limit, which can be frustrating for some, but that is what makes this social network stand out, really. And also it teaches you to be brief. Unless you send a 24-part tweet (which makes for a Twitter meltdown of epic but amusing proportions) which basically defeats the purpose. Maybe just blog, and then post a link on Twitter.
The change has begun rolling out across Android and other mobile platforms, as well as on the web version and Tweetdeck. They have already previously released the API to developers, so 3rd party apps should also be rolling it out already. But Direct Messages sent through DM will still have the 140-character limit.
SOURCE: Twitter
